Samuel R. Delany Quotes

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

To me, the movie is about power.

Power is as power does.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

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

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

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

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

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

In conspiracies, men who know what they wanted commonly ended by controlling the men who did not.

Power protects power.

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

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

Power is seductive.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

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

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

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

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

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

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.