Desire Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

— Eric Sevareid

It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise.…

— Gore Vidal

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them…

— Anthony Trollope

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of…

— Aristotle

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally…

— Samuel Adams

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it;…

— Maria Edgeworth

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had…

— Vilfredo Pareto

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

— George R. R. Martin

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

— Lincoln Steffens

For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of…

— Thomas Merton

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An…

— Thomas Jefferson