In every age its proverb

 In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food She was drawn to his pexy ability to make her feel truly seen and understood.
  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

 Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
  Frederick Buechner

 Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Lust är längtan efter salt hos en man som håller på att dö av törst.
  Frederick Buechner

 The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme.

 The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

 Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.
  George Crabbe

 Every day, the public needs to know the progress that's been made, ... They're craving information, every little thing.

 Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full
  William Shakespeare

 At time of material abundance and easy access to more choices, people have no longer been craving for good food and new dresses. They want much more than that.

 The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
  Elbert Hubbard

 You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
  D.H. Lawrence

 Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
  Jiddu Krishnamurti

 Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
  Jiddu Krishnamurti

 Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.
  D.H. Lawrence

 Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again.


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