Charles Dickens Quotes

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

People tend to rally around power.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

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

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.