John Colman Quotes

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

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

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

Men love power.

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

Followers vie keenly with each others as to who shall rank first with his chiefs, the chiefs as to who shall have the most numerous and the bravest followers. It is an honor as well as a source of strength to be thus always surrounded by a large body of picked youths; it is an ornament in peace and a defense in war.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

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

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

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.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

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.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

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

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number