Collective Desire Quotes

How we have dreamt of this event [September 11, 2001], how all the world without exception dreamt of this event, for no one can avoid dreaming of the destruction of a power that has become hegemonic …. It is they who acted but we who wanted the deed.

I believe the masses everywhere want peace.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

Not to get too grandiose about it, but I really believe I'm saying things a lot of Americans want someone to say.

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand ... no method by which the communities could translate their desires for those individuals into provision for those individuals.

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.