“Insatiable.”
Describing the Borgias
Dated 1498 or earlier. Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Cesare Borgia / His Life and Times (1976), p. 72
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“The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.”
in Where Nests the Water Hen:Roy,Gabrielle (1951)
Where Nests the Water Hen (1951)
“Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery.”
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 2 : Man, the Enslaving Animal, p. 22
Context: Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
Pelsaert, Jahangir’s India, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
Jahangir’s India
Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).
History of the Indies (1561)
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, ch. 1 (1974)