Appetites Quotes

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are… — Thomas Hobbes
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed… — Joseph Butler
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is… — James E. Faust
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' — C.S. Lewis
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some… — Angus Wilson
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and… — Thomas Merton
The appetites of the body were private battles. — Elizabeth Strout
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind… — John Ortberg
You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed at the same… — Leonard Ravenhill
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us… — Herman Wouk
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. — Joseph Butler
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself… — Julius Evola
The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the… — Eric Hoffer
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is… — David Foster Wallace
We all have hometown appetites, — Clementine Paddleford
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or… — Matthew Scully

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