Quotes about power

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

There’s no way to use power for good.

Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.

Ignorant power is a bane!

Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Is power that—an emptiness?

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. Who am I—though I have the power to do it—to punish and reward, playing with men’s destinies?”

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.