John J. McLaughlin Quotes

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

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

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

Power transforms what it touches.

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

I like power and I like to use it.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

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

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

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

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

The sense of power is as strong a principle in the mind as the love of pleasure.

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

It is not a mistake to want power.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

My interest is in power. How power works.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Power is seductive.