Nancy Farmer Quotes

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

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

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

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

Power is like a drug. The more you use it, the larger doses you need.

Power transforms what it touches.

Power protects power.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

Men love power.

Power is seductive.

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

It is not a mistake to want power.

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 as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.