Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

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

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

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

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

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

Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!

The sudden acquisition of power by those who have never had it before can be intoxicating and we run the risk of petty power games ...

Suspect power more than vice.

Men love power.

He who appears to command people but in fact accommodates himself to wrath and ambition and pleasure, … will not know how to dispose of the power

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I like power and I like to use it.