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

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

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

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

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

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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

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.

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

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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

For greed all nature is too little.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

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

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.

I always wanted to be loved.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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

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.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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.

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.

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

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

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.

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

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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

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

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.