They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations
He had just retired after 24 years in Congress.
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher the values, the harder the struggle — he needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved.
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Ambition never comes to an end.
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.
I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular. It's not in his vocabulary. It's not in his way of thinking what he can't do, what you're not supposed to do.
The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.