5,584 Quotes About Power

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.All friendships are negotiations of power.

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

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.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.