Bob Shacochis Quotes

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

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

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

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.

Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

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

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

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.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

Everybody in Washington works for me.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

Men love power.

I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

We're the most important group in the world.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

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

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 word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?