Quotes
Quotes about Will
Who pleases one against his will.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.
"There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.
Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. - On the request that he accept the Republican presidential nomination.
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
The future will be better tomorrow.
...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".
To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.
