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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. — Abba Eban

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. — Seneca The Younger

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name? — Billy Connolly

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you. — Fernando Lachica

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

Love is a decision, not just an emotion. It is selfless, and a commitment. — Lydia McLaughlin

But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed? — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did. — Madeleine Stowe

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur. — John Connolly

Double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable). — Barbara W. Tuchman

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc De Clapiers

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance. — Charles Bronson

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet. — Steven Franssen

How do I know about the world? By what is within me. — Laozi

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. — Antonio Porchia

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. — Geddy Lee

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet. — Dwight Yoakam

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. — Francesco Guicciardini

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. — George MacDonald

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. — George W. Bush

I hate being shy. I hate it. — Kristan Higgins

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler