Amassing Quotes
|
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge .
|
More Amassing Quotes
We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
john kerry— Speech to the floor of the Senate, Congressional Record, November 9, 1997 [1]
It seems that amassing a fortune is not the Shah's chief aim in life. What appears to motivate him most, the thing to which he devotes all his energies, has much vaster implications: He wants to become a part of history, to engrave his name for all time not only on the history of his country of his country but on that of the entire world. With his mysticism, he might even hope to fill the spiritual void in the Western countries which, in his view, are floundering in materialism.
muhammad reza pahlavi— Gérard de Villiers (1975) The Imperial Shah: An Informal Biography, page 286
