Luis Enrique Quotes

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

There will be no place that the sun will shine that will not be ours.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

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

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

It is not a mistake to want power.

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.

I want to ultimately own the world.

I want the ball in my hands.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.