Excesses Quotes

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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of… — Spiro T. Agnew
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of… — Huw Irranca-Davies
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. — James Chanos
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Rudolf Hoss
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's… — Frederick Forsyth
If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds. — Greg Giraldo
To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses'… — Simone de Beauvoir
Reality is a creation of our excesses. — Emile M. Cioran
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from… — Aristotle
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule… — Paul Laxalt
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;… — Laozi
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the… — James A. Baldwin
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. — Rembrandt
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton

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