Martin Firrell Quotes

Power is precarious.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

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

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power is paradoxical.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Power has no limits.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Power transforms what it touches.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Power protects power.

France is obsessed with power. Our mythology of power bears the imprint of nostalgia and obsolescence.

Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit; when you achieve it, there’s nothing there.

Power, not reason, is the new currency of this court's decision making

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

Dominion must naturally follow Property.