Lust For Power Quotes

• El ansia de poder, de dominar a los demás, inflama el corazón más que cualquier otra pasión.

  Tácito

  Pasión, Corazón, Lujuria

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• El ansia de poder no radica en la fuerza, sino en la debilidad.

  Erich Fromm

  Power, Lust, Weakness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• El impulso de salvar a la humanidad es casi siempre una falsa fachada del impulso de gobernar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Paz, Libertad, Guerra

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• Su insaciable ansia de poder sólo es igualada por su incurable impotencia para ejercerlo.

  Winston Churchill

  Ejercicio, Poder, Lujuria

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• De todos modos, ninguna droga, ni siquiera el alcohol, causa los males fundamentales de la sociedad. Si buscamos el origen de nuestros problemas, no deberíamos examinar a la gente por las drogas, sino por la estupidez, la ignorancia, la codicia y el amor al poder.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Beber, Ignorancia, Gente Estúpida

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). "Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer", p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• La sed de poder es una mala hierba que sólo crece en los terrenos baldíos de una mente abandonada.

  Ayn Rand

  Weed, Power, Lust

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

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• La historia está llena de personas que por miedo, o ignorancia, o ansia de poder han destruido conocimientos de valor inconmensurable que realmente nos pertenecen a todos. No debemos permitir que vuelva a ocurrir.

  Carl Sagan

  Verdad, Ignorancia, Gente

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• Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Passion, Successful, Exercise

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.405, Random House

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• The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

  Tucídides

  Party, Passion, Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, Giving Up, War

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• It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Power, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• Teniendo en cuenta el ansia natural de poder tan inherente al hombre, me temo que la sed de poder prevalecerá para oprimir al pueblo.

  George Mason

  Sabiduría, Hombres, Personas

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• Y las mentes intrépidas trepan más pronto a las coronas.

  William Shakespeare

  Fearless, Mind, Crowns

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.8, l.62.

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• Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.

  Ralph Bunche

  Wise, Wisdom, Religious

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• Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, Men, Lust

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

  Allan Boesak

  Philosophy, Fall, Biblical

  Fuente: reflections.yale.edu

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• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

  Tácito

  Passion, Justice, Lust

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, XV. 53,

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• In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Poder, Hombres, Orden

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• We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

  Steven Pinker

  Significado, Yo, Práctica

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• El progreso natural de las cosas es que la libertad ceda y el gobierno gane terreno.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Libertad, 4 th Of July, Rendimiento

  Thomas Jefferson (2015). "Selección de cartas de Thomas Jefferson", p.5, Lulu.com

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• Corrupción y envidia y ansia de poder. Crueldad y frialdad. Una curiosidad viciosa. Malicia pura, venenosa y tóxica. Desde tu más tierna infancia, nunca has mostrado ni una pizca de compasión o bondad sin calcular cómo te beneficiaría. Has torturado y matado sin remordimiento ni vacilación; has traicionado e intrigado y te has glorificado en tu traición. Sois un pozo negro de inmundicia moral.

  Philip Pullman

  Bondad, arrepentimiento, compasión

  Philip Pullman (2007). "El catalejo de ámbar", Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

  Michael Short

  Liderazgo, honradez, integridad

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• My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Brother, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.314, Bantam

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• People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

  Konstantin Ushinsky

  Freedom, People, Lust

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• It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Evil, Addiction

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.358, Transaction Publishers

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