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" A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. "
Henry A. Wallace
" All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from. "
Marilyn Manson
" Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. "
Thomas Otway
" An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. "
Saadi
" A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. "
Emma Orczy
" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
Karl Kraus
" Curiosity is the lust of the mind. "
Thomas Hobbes
" Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope. "
James Howard Kunstler
" Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. "
Donald Ray Pollock
" Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos. "
Mary Roach
" He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. "
Buddha
" He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. "
William Kingdon Clifford
" I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play. "
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
" I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. "
Aleister Crowley
" I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it. "
Keira Knightley
" If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. "
Mortimer Adler
" If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? "
Dennis Prager
" I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles. "
Ron Howard
" I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself. "
Clive Thompson
" I lust love to play football. "
Ray Nitschke
" Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots. "
Peter Baynham
" It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. "
Johann Arndt
" It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. "
Michel de Montaigne
" It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. "
Mortimer Adler
" I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. "
John Metcalf
" I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. "
Mahatma Gandhi
" Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. "
Helen Fisher
" Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. "
Mahatma Gandhi
" Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. "
Mason Cooley
" Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. "
William Penn
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