Michael Crichton Quotes

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

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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.

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

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

He who has the gold makes the rules.

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

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

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

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

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

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

I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Power reveals.

Power, not reason, is the new currency of this court's decision making

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

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 have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

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

Power without abuse loses its charm.