Horace Walpole Quotes

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

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

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

I like control.

I like to be in control of things.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

We must tame these fellows and make them useful to us.

With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

Everybody is owned by somebody.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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

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

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.