"There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey."

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Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

William Kingdon Clifford

#Thinking Quotes #Desire Quotes #Wicked Quotes

“I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.”
“Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.”
“We just finished shaking hands with all of the fans. I feel very good. They are cute.”
“I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.”

Source : Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books
“People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”
“I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.”
“If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.”

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