“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 390.

1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)

No. 13
1790s, Discourses on Davila (1790)
Context: Are riches, honors, and beauty going out of fashion? Is not the rage for them, on the contrary, increased faster than improvement in knowledge? As long as either of these are in vogue, will there not be emulations and rivalries? Does not the increase of knowledge in any man increase his emulation; and the diffusion of knowledge among men multiply rivalries? Has the progress of science, arts, and letters yet discovered that there are no passions in human nature? no ambition, avarice, or desire of fame? Are these passions cooled, diminished, or extinguished? Is the rage for admiration less ardent in men or women? Have these propensities less a tendency to divisions, controversies, seditions, mutinies, and civil wars than formerly? On the contrary, the more knowledge is diffused, the more the passions are extended, and the more furious they grow.

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 5 (p. 59)

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 6, Harsh rules and developing countries, p. 142

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 311.
General

1930s- 1950s, An Economist Looks At the Peace (1945)

21 June 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
Context: Let everyone live as ever they like, as ever they desire. There should be no interference on Internet, or on Facebook, on Skype. People’s religion or ideas should not be interfered. Let everyone be free. Religion would prosper very easily in such an environment.

The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)