![It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-idolatry-nourishes-mans-ambition-to-domineer-over-his-fellow-man-idolatry.jpg)
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ambition mind firsts
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Charles Caleb Colton
ambition errors suffering
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
ambition son men
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
ambition perception prudent
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. Alan Hansen
ambition want plus
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. Aiden Wilson Tozer
ambition goal quality
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal. Chogyam Trungpa
ambition thinking giving
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. Diane Setterfield
ambition journey discovery
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. David Morrissey
ambition simple thinking
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points. David Nevins
men brotherhood unity
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Charlie Chaplin
men greed progress
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
men greed soul
Greed has poisoned men's souls
men long liberty
As long as men die, liberty will never parish.
men hands political
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism — and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
men groups kingdoms
The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
men individuality genius
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
men judging treats
Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
men justice judging
If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment. Charles Wagner
evil intellectual rehabilitation
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. Charles Dickens
evil lazy would-be
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.