When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If 'The Lord of the Rings' is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
“Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the… — Gemma Malley Copy Share Image
When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become… — Jon Runyan Copy Share Image
Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She had thought once that there were good people and bad people, that there was a side of light and a side… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The enchantment of being here at all, alive and aware, is a gift too often considered a problem. Simply feeling the aliveness—the… — Robert Saltzman Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Do observe what is actually taking place within yourself and outside yourself in the competitive culture in which you live with its… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Tony the Beat Poet says the church is like a wounded animal these days. He says we used to have power and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“The struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience. It cannot be denied that… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“When you react, you are not in a state of love. When you can love without expectation, you are in a state… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“That a work of the imagination has to be “really” about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I once found an ego, crawling around and trying to shine on me. I took it in my arms and the ego… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Master Stanley used to tell me that what I was doing was nowhere near as important as the place within myself from… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“I know," Attolia soothed him. "I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“You flesh bodies are so obsessed with goodness, yet no other form of life on earth is capable of such cruelty. You… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.” — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Edward believes that all religions are cousins at heart and begin in the right spirit but then they are corrupted by the… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“It is striking that even some who clearly have solid doctrinal and spiritual convictions frequently fall into a lifestyle which leads to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“From that imbalance rose the tragic results of the coming together of two worlds. It was the extermination of an ancient dream… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I (John Stone) have never had any great desire to abolish poverty or save fallen women; I am, and always have been,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Absolutely anything is Necessary is a part of this dream, just as non-Knowledge is the Absolute Truth of Knowledge, which we will… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
