Into Motivation

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "People say law but they mean wealth. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" Quotes by John Dryden "Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate". Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli "Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each ... Read More

Quotes by Joan Didion "To believe in "the greater good" is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. Ask  anyone committed to a Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins". Quotes by Charles Dickens "Your sister is given to governmen"t. Quotes by John Emerich Edward Dalberg "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...There ... Read More

Quotes by Rene Descartes "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues". Quotes by Thomas Dekker "The best of men, that e'ere wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. The first true gentleman that ever breathed". Quotes by Dalai Lama "It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practise the virtues of compassion and tolerance". Quotes by Quentin Crisp "Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to ... Read More

Quotes by Christopher Fry "We don't want to put ourselves wrong, With anything as positive as evil". Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson in history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better". Quotes by Henry Havelock Ellis "What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command". Quotes by Thomas Stearns Elliot "For every life and every act, Consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in ... Read More

Quotes by Confucius "To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away". Quotes by Karl von Clausewitz "War is the continuation of politics by other means. war belongs, not to the Arts and Sciences, but to the province of social life". Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ... Read More

Quotes by Charles Dickens "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature". Quotes by Destouches "Those not present are always wrong". Quotes by Rene Descartes "Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of ... Read More

Quotes by Phillip Kindred Dick "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words". Quotes by John Dewey "There is all the difference in the world between having something to say, and saying something". Quotes by Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett "We must use words as they are used or stand aside from life". Quotes by Joseph Conrad "Words, as is well known, are great foes of ... Read More