Appetite Quote by Emile M. Cioran Download Open image “Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.” — Emile M. Cioran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appetite Inspirational Martyr Martyrdom Martyred Power Suffering
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people. — George Mason Copy Share Image
“The person who has a disproportionate need for control, who is too hungry for power, is susceptible to losing sight of the work.” — Ronald A. Heifetz Copy Share Image
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
