Cyprus Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...”

— James Blish

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to…

— Barry Unsworth

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition;”

— Lao Tzu

“Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.”

— Paulo Coelho

“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.…

— T.S. Eliot

“And yet—he thought—through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists,…

— Ayn Rand

“To Want and To Dare! Never hesitate to act when the feeling of injustice revolts us. To give one's measure with all good faith,…

— Doria Shafik

“There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never…

— César Vallejo

“They sought to take the unfairness out of existence, to remove the mistakes in the transmitted message of life which gave it any point…

— Iain M. Banks

“The Party denied the free will of the individual - and at the same time it exacted his willing self-sacrifice. It denied his capacity…

— Arthur Koestler