Ambition Is Evil/Quotes

""As the mind to the body so the soul to the spirit, as death to the mortal man so failure to the immortal, such is the price of all ambition.""

- Warhammer 40000

""There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than the wish to be getting. Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.""

- Laozi

""Ambition makes you look pretty ugly

Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy""

- Radiohead, "Paranoid Android"

""Whatever quality of human greatness I have the talent to portray--that was the quality the outer world sought to degrade. They let me play nothing but symbols of depravity, nothing but harlots, dissipation-chasers and home-wreckers, always to be beaten at the end by the little Girl Next Door, personifying the virtue of mediocrity.""

- Kay Ludlow, Atlas Shrugged

""There is a passion in the human heart that is called aspiration. It flares with the noble flame, and by its light Man has traveled from the caves of darkness to the darkness of outer space. But when this passion becomes lust, when its flame is fanned by greed and private hunger, then aspiration becomes ambition--by which sin the angels fell.""

- The Control Voice, Opening Narration of The Outer Limits episode "The Bellero Shield"

"Annie: Does anyone ever choose Slytherin?

George: No, because that would be like saying 'I'm a sociopath.'"

- Being Human

""That such a man could go so far toward realizing his ambitions--that is a phenomenon the world will ponder for centuries to come.""

- Modern introduction to Mein Kampf

""For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.""

- James 3:16, The Bible (New American Standard Version)

""I knew you weren't normal, but to have such an ambition at such a young age... It's no wonder you fell to Hades. Hmhmhm...""

- Valvatorez, about Fuka Kazamatsuri, Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten

""Actually if you ask me this country could do with a little less motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans. I'm not sure motivation is always a good thing. You show me a lazy prick who's lyying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.""

- George Carlin