Quote by Baruch Spinoza
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. - Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. – Baruch Spinoza

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. – Baruch Spinoza

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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza

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Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. – Dee Dee Myers

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually its more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. – David Brin

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. – Bertrand Russell

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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. – James Madison

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. – Abraham Lincoln

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

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