Quotes about Passions
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
- Dennis Prager
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
- Marquis de Sade
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
- David O. McKay
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- Edmund Burke
How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?
- Francine Rivers
These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
- Francine Rivers
If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
- Damian Lewis
The spirit of party opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
- George Washington
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.
- Jason Fried
how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?
- Edith Wharton