Babylonian Proverb Quotes

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

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

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

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

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.

Those above are going down, those below are going up.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

No true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority…. Do the sheep when they are all assembled together rule and guide the shepherd?