J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

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.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

I alone am the acknowledged head of all the Indians.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

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

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

People who are divided are easier to control.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!