Bette Midler Quotes

All men would be tyrants if they could.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

I have to have a passion in my life.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

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

I no longer think you can live without passion.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

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

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

I feel fiery in my life. I feel fiery in my art.

British people do not like being bossed around.

Salman is a motivation himself. He has fire within him.

I never struggle for motivation, that's for sure. Motivation is something that burns within.

I have the type of passion that I don't think a lot of people have.