“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”– William Hazlitt Related Quotes “He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”– Samuel Johnson “All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”– Albert Camus “Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”– Ralph Cudworth