Libba Bray Quotes

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Power transforms what it touches.

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

I think that we are all the heroes of our own story, and I think life comes in all shades of gray. Personally, I love movies that exist like this, where you think someone can behave both heroically and like a villain.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

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

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Power protects power.

Suspect power more than vice.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

Power won't change me.

Power is always temporary.

Power is seductive.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others

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.

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.