Abandoned Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abandoned Corruption Grows Lust Mind Power Psychology Tyranny Vacant Weed
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease. — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I'm surprised when I walk right into yet another abandoned hunters' camp. Tattered plastic sheeting still hangs askew here and there. Blackened aerosol cans… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.” — A.J. Nuest Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
