Edmund Spenser Quotes

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Jealousies and rivalries have been my themes, and checks and balances as their antidotes, till I am ashamed to repeat the words.

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

Violence is the tax that Moslems must pay for gaining authority on earth.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Whenever, and from whatever causes, it might happen; and happen it would, that any one of these nations or confederacies should rise on the scale of political importance much above the degree of their neighbors, that moment would those neighbors behold her with envy and fear.

Our party is divided into those who sit and those who are sat upon.

England is the natural enemy of France, an enemy greedy, ambitious, unjust, and false. The invariable and cherished object of her policy is, if not the destruction of France, at least her abasement, her humiliation, her ruin.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

American and Chinese civilizations are antagonistic; they cannot live and thrive and both survive on the same soil. One or the other must perish.