Ian Brown Quotes

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Everybody in Washington works for me.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

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' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

I want to be important.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Culture follows power.

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

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

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

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

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.