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Passion Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
- Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
- Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition…
- Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
- Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
- In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
- This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human…
- The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
- The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.
- What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
- It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they…
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
- The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their…
- To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human…
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe