Active Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible…

— Honore de Balzac

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

— William Blake

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

— John C. Maxwell

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Someday we will realize that man is not controlled by laws, but byb passions. it is the strongest of passions that led to mankind's…

— Anthony Rudel

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with…

— Roy Baumeister

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been…

— Seneca the Younger

“People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of…

— Dean M. Schroeder

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended…

— Irving Kristol

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency,…

— John Stuart Mill