Quotes with grasping

  • I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
  • Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

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  • Angela Davis Radical simply means ''grasping things at the root.''
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Aesop Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Walter Lippmann Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • George Bancroft Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Abigail Adams I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Booker T. Washington Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
    Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Angela Davis Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.".
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Henry James The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Deepak Chopra You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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