James Hillman Quotes

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

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I like power and I like to use it.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

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

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

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

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

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

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

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

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Power has no limits.

I'm interested in power.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

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

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

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

Men love power.