Power Hungry Quotes

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Goering is a morphine addict…a classic megalomaniac.

A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

Shredder is about as evil as it gets. He is a man fueled by jealousy and rage. At the same time, he doesn't micromanage, so his gang is free to do what they want.

A somewhat greasy bald-headed man with his mouth open.... What animated him from end to end of his grotesque career was simply ambition—the ambition of a common man to get his hand upon the collar of his superiors, or, failing that, to get his thumb into their eyes.

… a brilliant but dangerous megalomaniac who is likely to pursue his own aims in disregard of U.S. interests

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

You think Trump cares if you leave? He wants power, not prosperity.

Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan.

Such is human nature, in the gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition, and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

[Lyndon Johnson was] the epitome of the unprincipled politician.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

A man of irregular and insatiable ambition ...who ought not be trusted with the reins of government

The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the Statist speaks in the tongue of the demagogue, concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build popular momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

Though much about Donald Trump is chaotic and unpredictable, his overall agenda as a businessman and politician is clear and consistent: He wants to make himself more powerful, and he doesn't care how he does it.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.