Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

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.

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.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Nature has always had more force than education.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

I always wanted to be loved.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Desire is the essence of a man.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

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.

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.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

For greed all nature is too little.

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

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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.

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

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

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

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

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.