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“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

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Book:Pearls Of Eternity

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Thanks be then to nature for this unsociableness, for this envious jealousy and vanity, for this insatiable desire for possession and for power.. Man wishes concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; and she wills discord, in order that man may be impelled to a new exertion of his powers, and to the further development of his natural capacities.”

Human Nature Lust For Power Self Importance Nature Vs Culture

Book:The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“The lust and the hunger? The thirst for power? And thus it is brewed, clearly, the heart's deadliest poison to integrity.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“The familiar picture of man in the last centuries was one of a rational being whose actions were determined by his self-interest and the ability to act according to it. Even writers like Hobbes, who recognized lust for power and hostility as driving forces in man, explained the existence of these forces as a logical result of self-interest: since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present. But Hobbe's picture became outmoded.”

Reason Hobbes Lust For Power 1941

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top”

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Book:Pearls Of Eternity

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Life is politics, you do it or it does you”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“In politics what you see is not what you get”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Power hungry=life loving”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Powerless=lifeless.”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Undoubtedly, you are overwrought from re-wroughting hand-wrought iron out right. But I think in time you will iron things out for yourself. Stay holstered and strapped to your side. It is said, ‘when genius matures it goes into hixibn’–“hiding.” You will know of this wisdom one day. --Thomas Kannon Sword Master, The Lady and the Samurai”

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Author:Douglas m. Laurent

“Only a fool would want to rule the entire human race — even in normal times. And only an absolute fool would want to rule them during an apocalypse.”

Leadership Power Stupidity Foolishness Apocalypse Absolute Power Lust For Power

Author:George Hammond

“We don’t have the right to interfere with each other’s freewill. To do so is a sign of lust for control and power. When others and organizations attempt to dictate how we should worship our origins, or believe they are entitled to control us to their expectations, under the guise that it will put us in good favor with the deity of their choice, they are worshipping power and control.”

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Book:Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness: Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth

Source: Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness: Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth

“Self-aggrandizement and lust for power, the maelstrom of baser instincts - disfigured people.”

Lust For Power Self Aggrandizement

Author:sir kristian goldmund aumann

“It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.”

Way Form Evil Social Sex Position Addiction Lust Distinction Satisfying Craving Climbers Lust For Power

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

Mind Fearless Climbs Crowns Royalty Monarchy Lust For Power

Author:William Shakespeare

“There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.”

Ifs Feels Writing Made Book Ends Hands Remember Easy One Day Connections University Lust Prose Materialism Pace Corridors Jenny Lust For Power

Author:Umberto Eco

“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.”

Humans Beautiful Human Beings Power Masters Army Slave Instinct Oneself Crowds Architecture Lust Fancy Aesthetic Uniforms Drills Lust For Power

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.”

Humans Has Beens Philosophy Humanity Fall Simple Concepts Greed Ancient Lust Biblical Nevertheless Togetherness Simple Things Exclusion Fall Back Ubuntu Aberration Lust For Power

Author:Allan Boesak

“The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.”

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Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.”

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”

Mind Grows Power Corruption Lust Tyranny Weed Abandoned Vacant Lust For Power

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”

Men Dark Results Empty Lust Lust For Power Empty Places

Book:Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four

Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four

“Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.”

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?”

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Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.”

“People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.”

People Freedom Democracy Lust Attributes Despise Craving Homage Lust For Power

Author:Konstantin Ushinsky

“The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.”

Heart Passion Politics Lust Dominating Lust For Power

Author:Tacitus

“In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.”

Men Order Power Lust For Power

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.”

Giving War States Peace Giving Up Lust Acquire Anti War Antiwar Incapable Insatiable Lust For Power

Author:Frank Chodorov

“Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.”

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

Power Weakness Lust Good And Evil Rooted Lust For Power

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.”

Soul Values Leadership Honesty Policy Ought Integrity Sells Lust Substance Ethical Fairness Decency Honesty Integrity Truth Honesty Lust For Power

Author:Michael Short

“It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.”

Mind Has Beens Order Mistake Power Highest Mark Lust Charm Great Minds Captivated Lust For Power

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.”

People Art Energy Lust Relaxed Degradation Receptive Lust For Power

Book:The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel

Source: The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel

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

Passion Justice Lust Lust For Power

Author:Tacitus

“Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.”

People Men Wisdom Natural Lust Inherent Considering Thirst Lust For Power

Author:George Mason

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

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”