David Hockney Quotes

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

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

You want power because it's an opportunity.

It is not a mistake to want power.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I want to be a major force.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

I like power and I like to use it.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I am and always will be a leader.

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

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

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

Men love power.

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

Power shows the man.