You only have power over people so 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.
Source: Bobynin, in The First Circle, ch. 17 (1968).
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (Dec 11 1918-2008), Russian novelist; He is well known for his books describing forced labor camps, e.g., One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962.