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“The lust and the hunger? The thirst for power? And thus it is brewed, clearly, the heart's deadliest poison to integrity.”

Heart Power Integrity Greed Poison Toxic Lust For Power Megalomania Thirst For Power Hunger For Power

Author:Criss Jami

“For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.”

Reason Facts Political Culture Republican Aspect Ideology Radical Thirst Domination Disturbing Political Culture Thirst For Power

Author:Al Gore

“Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.”

Has Beens Done Position Thirst Emperor Insatiable Thirst For Power

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.”

Natural Effects Materials Resources Weak Prosperity Available Selfish Thirst Boundless Natural Resources Exclusion Misuse Disadvantaged Thirst For Power

Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.”

Mother Actors Behinds Strange Personality Ambition Warm Guidance Purity Thirst Floating Spectators Bosoms Wonderland Vanishing Voiceless Thirst For Power

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.”

Natural Disease Thirst Monarchy Thirst For Power

Author:Thomas Paine

“Let no man thirst for good beer.”

Men Beer Thirst Brewing Funny Beer Brewing Beer Great Beer Good Beer Thirst For Power

Author:Samuel Adams

“From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.”

“Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.”

Men Reason Ambition Greed Thirst Thirst For Power

Author:Charles Ranlett Flint