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will to power
noun
(in the philosophy of Nietzsche) the self-assertive creative drive in all individuals, regarded as the supreme quality of the superman.
Word History and Origins
Origin of will to power1
Example Sentences
Trump’s will to power and his personality demand that he not stop his “shock and awe” campaign against American democracy and a humane society.
Yet Jews have indeed returned at times to tribal or national service to “gods of space, who express themselves in will to power, imperialism, injustice, demonic enthusiasm, and tragic self-destruction.”
The people of time … cannot avoid being persecuted, because by their very existence they break the claim of the gods of space, who express themselves in will to power, imperialism, injustice, demonic enthusiasm, and tragic self-destruction.
Sadopolitics, necropolitics, the cult of personality and the will to power cohere the fascist imagination.
He and his supporters believe that the will to power, expressed mainly through volume and bombast — backed with a threat of violence — will be enough to finish the insurrection of January 6.
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