#unwilling

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#blood #count #eyes #gang #lend

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them. ↗

— Howard Coble

#because #capable #doing #feared #i

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#applied #disease #his #how #loves

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ↗

— James Allen

#bound #circumstances #improve #men #remain

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#around #been #between #ceo #change

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. ↗

— Demi Moore

#failure #feel #gets #harder #lose

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further