Thirst For Power Quotes:

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

- Thomas Paine

topic: Disease, Natural, Thirst For Power

Let no man thirst for good beer.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Beer, Men, Thirst, Brewing, Funny Beer

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

topic: Political, Culture, Facts, Political Culture, Disturbing

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never 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 dangers from abroad ... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power - that factions will be formed and liberty endangered ...

- Andrew Jackson

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

topic: Ambition, People, Political, Freedom And Happiness, Thirst For Power

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

topic: Ambition, Men, Greed, Thirst For Power

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

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

topic: Selfish, Exclusion, Prosperity, Thirst For Power, Natural Resources

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

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

topic: Mother, Ambition, Personality, Thirst For Power

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

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

topic: Done, Emperor, Thirst, Thirst For Power