Emily Berrington Quotes

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.

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

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

Wherever there is power there is age.

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.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

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

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

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

I’m the constitution around here now.

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

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

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

Men love power.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

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