Thirst For Power Quotes

Let no man thirst for good beer.

Samuel Adams

Beer, Men, Brewing

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For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

Al Gore

Political, Culture, Facts

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From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

Andrew Jackson

Ambition, Government, People

"Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

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... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Thomas Paine

Disease, Natural, Monarchy

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Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Charles Ranlett Flint

Ambition, Men, Greed

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In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

Pope Francis

Selfish, Exclusion, Prosperity

Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.22, Orbis Books

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Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

Swami Vivekananda

Mother, Ambition, Personality

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

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Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Done, Emperor, Position

"Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

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