Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

All power is intolerant of sharing.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

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

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

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

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.

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

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

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

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

I'm interested in power.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

I’m the constitution around here now.

I believe in power.

I alone am the acknowledged head of all the Indians.

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

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

Power reveals.

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

Because I am the supreme authority.

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.