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“The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.”

Differences Attention Responsibility Demand Ambition Tasks Claims Chiefs Plenty Multitudes Daily Tasks

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”

Wells Persons Self Political Desire Stage Possibility Position Fool Scene Ambition Claims Madness Praise Critics Definitions Folly Criticize License Rivals Rivalry Reprisal Erasmus

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”

Honesty Drama Ambition And Love Claims Loyalty Satire Investigation Competing Family Drama Poignant Piercings

Author:A. O. Scott

“All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.”

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.”

Persons Ambition Claims Property Favors Welfare Yield Preference General Welfare

Book:Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

“One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.”

People Culture Social One Thing Media Ambition Claims Social Media Enthusiasm Conferences Imperatives Utopian Acquiescence Chipotle

Author:Astra Taylor

“The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.”

Men Way Heart Nations Ambition Eternal Claims Longing Lays Strive Rooted Disputes Eternal Peace Leading The Way

Author:Alva Myrdal