Bears Quote by George Crabbe

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence…

— John Quincy Adams

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge…

— Francis Bacon

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

— Confucius

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

— Ben Jonson

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“For if we are our own force, we are also a servant of the forces of the dead. So we have to be bold…

— Norman Mailer

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

— Cassandra Clare

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is…

— George Eliot

“Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical sensations, all…

— Benjamin Constant