John Milton Quotes

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Empire and liberty.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

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

I cannot stand authority.

I would not like a king who could obey.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.