Solzhenitsyn had a good one, on similar lines: You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a ma

Solzhenitsyn had a good one, on similar lines: You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.