A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Anne Boleyn

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Irving Babbitt

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld