Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare![Bласть дается только тому, кто посмеет наклониться и взять ее. Тут одно только, одно: стоит только посметь!]
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion. There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.
Neither necessity nor desire, but the love of power, is the demon of mankind. You may give men everything possible health, food, shelter, enjoyment but they are and remain unhappy and capricious, for the demon waits and waits; and must be satisfied.
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
Money doesn’t care who owns it. A bum can win it in a lottery, or a dunce can inherit it, or someone can get it by holding up a bank. But power – that’s something different. To have power is to own the world.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
