Blaise Pascal Quotes

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

It all boils down to power and money.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

In what then does real power consist? The answer is short and plain—in property.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

It is not a mistake to want power.

I want all the titles.

I want to ultimately own the world.

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Desire creates the power.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.