Quotes with insatiable

  • Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Doug Horton First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Madonna Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Alvin Adams In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Albert Camus 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.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • A. N. Wilson The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bette Davis The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • William Cowper Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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