Shirley Hazzard Quotes

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.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

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

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

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

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

To know is to control.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power has no limits.

I'm interested in power.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than an hundred against it

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority.

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

I just want to be dominant.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.