"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

Death, Power, Desire, Mankind

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"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Death, Tyranny

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Death, War, Humanity, Pain

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

Death, Women, Life, Mind

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Death, Sound

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Death, Graduation, Balloons, Children

"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Death, Memory, Grief, Love

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Death, Fear, Wealth

"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."

Robert Bolt, British Playwright

Death, Kings

"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Death, Life, Beauty, Philosophy

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Death, War

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"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."

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"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."

"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

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"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."