Those Who Seek Power Quotes

#1. If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.

James Bovard

#2. Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Carl Sagan

#3. Those who seek power rarely deserve it.

March McCarron

#4. Good men want only the power to make things right. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so. Great leaders find those who are worthy of wielding power and set them to the task of making things right.

Kel Kade

#5. We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

Woodrow Wilson

#6. Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Frank Herbert

#7. 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.

Francis Bacon

#8. Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

Tomichan Matheikal

#10. As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

John Climacus

#11. Those who criticize. They desire our blood, not our pain. But still I must achieve. I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the Power I was sent forth. For the world. For the children. But have mercy, for Ive been bleeding a long time now.

Michael Jackson

#12. The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly unpopular: capitalism

Jeffrey Tucker

#13. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Gary Hamel

#14. The trouble between Hindus and Muslims, which has continued to this day, is not generated by the people's inability to get along, but by those in positions of power and influence who seek to exploit religious differences for personal gain.

Arun Gandhi

#15. Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

Matthieu Ricard

#16. We ... exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge ...

Pope Paul III

#17. Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Plato

#18. Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Dario Fo

#19. The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

Rick Perry

#20. It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.

Ian Gregoire

#21. Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

Thomas Sowell

#22. Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Henry Adams

#23. The silent workers get lost in the endless
darkness of the corporate world. Those
who work hard and constantly seek to
be visible to their superiors, those who
showcase their hard work, are the ones who
advance to positions of greater power and
responsibility.

Abhishek Ratna

#24. The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

David Blunkett

#25. We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.

John Warner

#26. There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#27. The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

Maajid Nawaz