John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

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

Power has no limits.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

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

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

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

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

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

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

I like control.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I like power and I like to use it.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.