When there's the possibility of a little power, you already want more.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
That kings have a need of their subjects no less than their subjects have need of kings. A dangerous idea.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
I say, the cure for having too much power is not to get more power.
Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.
When you kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the whole court can watch him die.
— I don't want power. I want to be free.
— Power is freedom.
Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.