It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“His own work within government had taught him that there are virtually no limits to a man’s greed and lust for power… — C.A. Fail Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Ackx must have owed him big time,” Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. “A favour like that doesn’t come cheap.”… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
“A system which in every act of its life sacrifices the welfare of large sections of the people, yes, of whole nations,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions."… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“And each and every one, it seems, falls to stagnation, and in that stagnation evil men rise, through greed or lust for… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Wardress in a prison,was she, that old hippopotamus? That is significant, perhaps." Sarah said: "You mean that that is the cause of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“Because we know ourselves. Because others obey us as though we were gods, and we know we’re not. We see the fragility… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“In 1984 the lust for power is satisfied by inflicting pain; in Brave New World, by inflicting a hardly less humiliating pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for… — Bono Copy Share Image
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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