Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
Elizabeth JanewayThis is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.
Elizabeth Janewayit is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
Elizabeth Janeway