Veronica Roth Quotes

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Ambition is the mother of hypocrisy and prefers to skulk in corners and dark places. It cannot endure the light of day. It is an unclean vice wallowing in the depths, always hidden, but with ever an eye to advancement.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

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

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

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

Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

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.

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.