"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Leave Me Alone Quotes

“You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.”
“When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.”
“Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.”
“I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.”
“My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.”

Source : Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”
“It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?”
“The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?”
“There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.”

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