Ambition Quote by Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

— Baruch Spinoza

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

— Saint John Chrysostom

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Was it possible that people who wanted to die developed the ability to look slightly transparent around the edges, a hologram of themselves, empty…

— Voula Grand

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

— Democritus

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of…

— Xenophon

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go…

— Daniel Defoe

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

— Leo Tolstoy

By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of…

— George Orwell

“That a work of the imagination has to be “really” about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write a story…

— Doris Lessing

“Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and…

— Gemma Malley

Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but…

— Eva Cox