Beau Willimon Quotes

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Under every stone lurks a politician

[Politics is a] war of all against all … a quest for power after power that ceaseth only in death.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

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

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable …

The causes of war are the same as the causes of competition among individuals: acquisitiveness, pugnacity, and pride; the desire for food, land, materials, fuels, mastery. The state has our instincts without our restraints.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

In 'Bigg Boss,' back-biting is inevitable. It's a part of the game, and there's nothing wrong about it.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.