power

  1. Where the will to power is paramount love will be lacking.
    Carl Jung
  2. In the nineteenth century, Nietzsche put the matter in a brutal light by arguing that reason is a kind of linguistic illusion, that good and evil, are equally, illusionary, and there is nothing but one’s will and power to realize one’s will. In other words, there is no difference between the sentences “I want to do this” and “I have a right to do this”.
    Neil Postman
  3. Already during my early childhood I had drawn a feeling of superiority from my meditations on the universality of death: those around me did not think about this, I thought about it, and this alone gave me the upper hand. Is it not the same with a man, who, in his mind, undresses a woman walking down the street? What interests him more than sex is power.
    Czesław Miłosz
  4. In subtle ways, the economic power links up with political power and the power of the media to create something once called Mafia-democracy.
    Václav Havel