The love of power is the demon of mankind.
Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.
Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.
Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything
Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.
