Tom Stoppard Quotes

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I like control.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Money is a mechanism for control.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

England is… a country infested with people who love to tell us what to do, but who very rarely seem to know what’s going on.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Power transforms what it touches.