Quotes About Power Hungry People

#1. If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

#2. People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" ... The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

M.F.K. Fisher

#3. It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Masha Gessen

#4. No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry ... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

Frances Moore Lappe

#5. People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Eric Hoffer

#6. Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.

Taite Adams

#7. Sometimes we have to go deep inside ourselves to solve our problems

Patrick Star

#8. I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.

David Mixner

#9. Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

Victor Robert Lee

#10. While I looked, I thought myself happy, and was surprised to find myself ere long weeping
and why?

Charlotte Bronte

#11. Above him loomed a grotesque fat man [ ... ] His bedrobe was large enough to serve as a tourney pavilion, but its loosely knotted belt had come undone, exposing a huge white belly and a pair of heavy breasts that sagged like sacks of suet covered with coarse yellow hair.

George R R Martin

#12. (Everywhere I go as a writer - especially if I'm in drag as a "memoirist" - such fears seem to be first and foremost on people's minds. People seem hungry, above all else, for permission, and a guarantee against bad consequences. The first, I try to give; the second is beyond my power.)

Maggie Nelson

#13. Each year, humanity died a little more. ChronoCom's charter was to fight that decline, yet things had never gotten better. Every year, there was a little less power to utilize. People went hungry a little longer. Lived lives a little harder. They were losing this war.

Wesley Chu