Excesses Quotes

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A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was… — Rahm Emanuel
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic… — Jim Hightower
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge… — Edward Snowden
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her… — Paul Wellstone
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain… — Audrey Niffenegger
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in… — Terry Pratchett
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a… — Anne Rice
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn… — Patti Smith
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. — Iain Banks
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel de Montaigne
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses… — Samuel Johnson
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is… — Paul Wellstone

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