It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

For greed all nature is too little.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.