Desire for Control Quotes

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.

I want your heart, I want to eat your children.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to surrender at all. We would like the OTHER to surrender, we would like the other to be a slave. But the same is the desire from the other side: man wants the woman to be a slave; and of course the woman also wants the same, the SAME desire is there. Their methods of enslaving each other may be different, but the desire is the same.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Everybody wants power and control in their life.