Ability Quote by Isabel Paterson

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

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Barbara Tuchman

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

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

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the…

— Simone Weil

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

— Liam Cunningham

When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

— Frederick Lenz

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

— Emile M. Cioran

The naked pursuit of power without responsibility often leads to the loss of power and responsibility.

— Tatalo Alamu

“The person who has a disproportionate need for control, who is too hungry for power, is susceptible to losing sight of the work.”

— Ronald A. Heifetz

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

— William Hazlitt