Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-10] of 10 Desire quotesDesire QuotesDesire [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.~ John Adams One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.~ Milton Friedman The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.~ Gustave Le Bon There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.~ Albert Jay Nock A golden bit does not make a better horse.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Don't ask for what you'll wish you hadn't got.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What is wisdom? Always desiring the same things, and always refusing the same things.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Men cannot see truth, because they love falsehood. The gospel is not seen, because it is too pure for their loose lives and lewd thoughts.~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print