Desire Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Distrust Strong
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we have to confront is that that impulse is so easily transmuted into something corrosive and corrupt in how it's actually put into practice. That's the danger. It's not that the impulse is wrong or unjust or not totally… — Chris Hayes Copy Share
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control.” — Robert Vanleeuwen Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image