“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.” — Baruch Spinoza Quote

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.