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

For greed all nature is too little.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

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.

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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

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.

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

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

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.

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

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

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.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

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

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.

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.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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

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

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

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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.

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.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

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.

Desire is the very essence of man.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

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.

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

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