Quotes by Passion In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths. Alexander Hamilton passion taken men The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself. Alexander Hamilton passion party men It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise. Alexander Hamilton passion errors country The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. Alexander Hamilton obscurity prejudice passion What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next. Alexander Hamilton passion government people The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. Alexander Hamilton good-man passion men The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion. Alexander Hamilton passion broken justice I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. Alexander Herzen passion feelings men You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. Alexander Herzen passion law facts It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness. Alexander Herzen passion self character I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people. Alexander Ludwig who-we-are passion people Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul. Alexander MacLaren passion soul life There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion. Alexander McQueen passion The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody. Alexander McQueen passion fashion technology Passions are the gales of life. Alexander Pope passion literature life See how the World its Veterans rewards! Alexander Pope passion age life The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. Alexander Pope passion differences giving Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. Alexander Pope passion strength time On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Alexander Pope passion ocean wind Intestine war no more our passions wage, Alexander Pope passion bears war «4567891011121314»
