Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

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

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

I hate exercising self-control.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I can resist everything except temptation.

He did not care which direction the car was travelling, so long as he was in the driver’s seat.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.