Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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

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

I like power and I like to use 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.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

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

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

The Arrogance of Power

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.

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

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.

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.

As pitilessly as force annihilates, equally without pity … intoxicates those who possess or believe they possess it. In reality, no one possesses it.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

I want all the titles.

I always get my way.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters