Acquire Quote by Aldous Huxley

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

— Barbara Tuchman

Power is of an encroaching nature.

— James Madison

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes…

— Marie of Romania

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

— J. K. Rowling

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels…

— Alexander Lowen

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is…

— Bertrand Russell

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

— William Hazlitt

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Isabel Paterson

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

— Liam Cunningham

Desire creates the power.

— Raymond Holliwell

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the…

— Barbara Amiel