Thomas Mann, quoted by J.B. Priestley:
"'[...] England's attitude to power is quite other, and incomparably more natural and straight-forward than the German attitude. Both parties understand something quite different by it - it is the same word with a wholly different meaning. To Englishmenpower is in no way the darkly emotional concept as viewed by Germans: power, in English eyes, implies no emotion - the will to power is a German invention - but a function: they exercise it in the gentlest and most unobtrusive manner, with the least possible displau, and safeguarding as much freedom as feasible, for they do not believe that power is a proclamation of slavery, and are therefore not slaves to power themselves"
PRIESTLEY, J. B. This Land of Ours. In: PRIESTLEY, J. B; GIBBS, Sir Philip: GUEDALLA, Philip; MAUGHAM, Somerset; and others. The English Spirit. London: George Allen & Uniwin, 1942.
PRIESTLEY, J. B. This Land of Ours. In: PRIESTLEY, J. B; GIBBS, Sir Philip: GUEDALLA, Philip; MAUGHAM, Somerset; and others. The English Spirit. London: George Allen & Uniwin, 1942.
