Power Hungry Quotes

• It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Government, Evil People

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• We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

  Frans de Waal

  Hungry, Chimpanzees, Brutal

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• You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Hungry, Wells, Naive

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• Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Leader, Boards, Way

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• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Atheist, Men, Labels

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• We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don't turn away.

  Lesley Boone

  Country, Children, Responsibility

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• Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Ambition, Government, Political

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• I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?

  James Patterson

  Insane, Hungry, Magnet

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• [Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Regulation, Way, Planning

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• Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Novelists, Hungry, Madmen

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• Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

  Julius Caesar

  Funny, Sleep, Night

  Julius Caesar act 1, sc. 2, l. 191 (1599) See Plutarch 2

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• Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

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• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

  Julius Caesar

  Looks, Cassius, Obesity

  Julius Caesar act 1, sc. 2, l. 191 (1599) See Plutarch 2

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• 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

  Running, Art, Book

  "David Mixner's life in Clinton, gay politics" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2008.

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• I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Ministry, Fool

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• ... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in both Gusher of Lies and Power Hungry: that the myths about "green" energy are largely just that, myths; that hydrocarbons are here to stay; and that if we are going to pursue the best "no regrets" policy with regard to energy, then we should be avidly promoting natural gas and nuclear energy.

  Robert Bryce

  Jobs, Regret, Lying

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• With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.

  Michael Parenti

  Mass Destruction, Leader, Drug

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• That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fate, Dark, Office

  "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.

  Kim Harrison

  Communication, Magic, Hungry

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• I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

  Cate Tiernan

  Should Have, Rivers, Challenges

  Cate Tiernan (2011). “Immortal Beloved (Book One): Immortal Beloved: Book One”, p.313, Hachette UK

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• By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ambition, Gryffindor, Hogwarts

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