Desire Quote by F. Murray Abraham

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those…

— John C. Maxwell

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

— William Hazlitt

“And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them…

— Eric Liu

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

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire…

— Aldous Huxley

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

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

— Liz Smith

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

— Vanna Bonta

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the…

— Vernon Howard

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

— Plato

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Power people are generally threatened by authority people...

— James Hunter