Twyla Tharp Quotes

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state..

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

… autocrat of half the world

The tyrant is always stirring up some war or another, in order that the people may require a leader.

I do not blame those who wish to rule the Athenians, but those who are over-ready to serve.

I almost think were I to win some small success now, I could become dictator.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

We would rather be feared than respected.

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

The tyrant is a child of pride.