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Passion Quotes by Edmund Burke
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of…
- He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which…
- A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
- We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
- Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with…
- Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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