Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Power is competence.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

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

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.