Prince Charles Quotes

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

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

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

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

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

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

No man ever ruled other men for their own good.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.