Kanye West Quotes

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Power protects power.

No one man shall hold the power to bring this oppression [war] upon us.

The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it

More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.

Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.

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.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.