5 Tom Stoppard Quotes on Power

Tom Stoppard quotes on power

1. Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.

6. The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

30. Mageeba: Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press, Mr. Wagner? Wagner: Not exactly, sir, no. Mageeba: I mean a free press which is edited by one of my relatives.

36. I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

48. Alexander: How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still.