Mary Stewart Quotes

Politics is the art of dominating men.

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

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

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

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

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

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

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

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

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Authority is quite degrading.

Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.