Quotes About Desire

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

War is not a thing one wants.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

He supposed that was the way of human beings, wanting what they couldn't have,