Body Quote by Aldous Huxley

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

— Isabel Paterson

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

— Bertrand Russell

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

— Winston Churchill

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

— Erich Kastner

Desire creates the power.

— Raymond Holliwell

“Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.”

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or…

— Kelly McGonigal

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

— William Hazlitt

The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.

— Liam Cunningham

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

— Barbara Tuchman

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

— Ellen Swallow Richards