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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. Michel Foucault

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Saint Augustine

Prayer Will Longing Thy Also Without Continuance Prayers Your Desire

By nature, men desire the beautiful. Saint Basil

Beautiful Nature Men Desire

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. Tacitus

Nature Man Oppression Resist Desire

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. Thomas Wolfe

Life You Feeling Prevent True Escape Escaping Romantic Desire

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. Barry Schwartz

You Do The Right Thing People Crushed Virtues Right Thing Those Rely Undermine Because Discover Exist Want Anyone The Right Thing Then Incentives Who Actually Right Thing Desire Need

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it. Beau Willimon

Politics Political Campaign You Change People World Political Some People Young Change The World Other Side Drawn Out See Some Only Tactics Joined Like Sort Off Campaign Itself Person Get Micro Gets Any Young Person Turned Use Who Start Desire

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. Dave Pelzer

People Strong Better Cause Negative Understanding Possess Strong Desire Environment Wrong Persist Any Break Themselves Chain Right Basic Basic Understanding Desire

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus

Good Rather Wrong Merely Means Desire

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.' Freida Pinto

Myself People Made Every Others Worry Way Say Ourselves All People Rush About Like Look Learned Always Proud Covet Very Get American Traits African Being Different Being Different Then Should Rid European Now Now And Then Why Desire

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world. Haniel Long

Friendship World Wolf Members Attack Know Another Same Common Energies Pack Use Gang United Bond Desire

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. Harry S Truman

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible. Ignatius of Antioch

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. James Lane Allen

Great Thoughts You Vision Will Become Fall Whatever Controlling Rise Small Remain Results Environment Ideal Dominant Escape May Cannot Your Aspiration Present Desire

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff

Money Every One Thing Easy Driven Common The One Thing Thing Desire

Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle. Nick Nolte

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman

Happiness Future You Control Relinquish More Your Desire

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. Sallust

Liberty Men Wish Master Few Only Most Few Men Just Desire

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. Stephen Covey

Spirit Human Acknowledged Human Spirit Deepest Desire

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