John Milton Quotes

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

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

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

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

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

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

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

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

I like power and I like to use it.

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

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

My plan is to govern as long as I can.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.

What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.

I shall either perish or reign.