Insatiable Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image “Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insatiable Omnipotence Power Vanity
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing,… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little… — Brom Copy Share Image
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image