"On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Powerful Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“Follow your heart and you won't get lost.”

Source : Song: Follow Your Heart, Album: Hope for the Hopeless, 2008
“The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.”

Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.
“I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”
“I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.”
“I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.”
“If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit,”

Source : "Thom Browne On Tokyo, His Father and Fast Fashion Collaborations". Interview with Sarah Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.
“Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.”
“Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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