Assembly Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

— William Penn

“For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the…

— Thomas Mann

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any…

— Caroline Gordon

“apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A…

— Will Durant

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

— Jane Hirshfield

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the groundlings, among…

— Herman Melville

“In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.”

— Guillermo del Toro

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are…

— Plutarch

“Passion can sometimes bring out qualities in a person that they never knew they possessed.”

— Lisa Desrochers

“Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I…

— W Somerset Maugham