Appetite Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of…

— Georges Bataille

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

— Garth Brooks

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

— Michael J. Sullivan

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy…

— Laurence Sterne

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

— William James

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive…

— Theodore Parker

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

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

— Anonymous

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all…

— Jules Verne

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”

— John Steinbeck

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

— Barbara Tuchman

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote…

— Loren Eiseley