"The incentive to ambition is the love of power." ― William Hazlitt Topic(s): Power More From William Hazlitt "Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses." "Rules and models destroy genius and art." "I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home." More In Power "I’d always felt very strongly in the power of vocation."― Daniel Day-Lewis "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."― John Acton "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."― Aldous Huxley