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You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

They prescribe various specific rites for the attainment of pleasure and power to those who are full of desires, and hold the attainment of heaven as the highest goal of life. The rebirth is their fruit of action.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.