Human soul Quote by Sándor Márai

“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate…

— Sándor Márai

“There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.”

— Jane Austen

“It is the undeveloped mind that desires power over others. The developed mind seeks only to dominate itself!”

— Alan J. Buick

Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of…

— Arundhati Roy

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)”

— Émile Zola

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political…

— James F. Cooper

“Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those…

— Margaret Heffernan

“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our…

— Benjamin Constant

“Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for…

— Aldous Huxley

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky