Passion Quotes
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.Paul Johannes Tillich
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.G. M. Trevelyan
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.Honore de Balzac
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.Alexander Hamilton
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.Fawn M. Brodie
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.Seneca
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.Cicero
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.Paul Eldridge
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.John Adams
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.Ice T, The Ice Opinion
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - - How passionately I hate them!Albert Einstein
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.Benjamin Disraeli
