Alcoholism Quote by Jack London

“Passion was the antithesis of morality.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an…

— Robert Musil

“whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions”

— Imam Ali

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact…

— Robert Musil

“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions…

— Carl Zimmer

“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and…

— Erik Pevernagie

“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover…

— Marquis de Sade

“Rather than trying to trick ourselves, we can teach ourselves, avoiding temptation until the act of avoidance itself becomes habitual and automatic. III.”

— Sheena Iyengar

“Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a…

— Jean Said Makdisi

“One thing I’ve learned is it’s better sometimes, in the weeds, to resist the temptation to stand up and follow the compass. *”

— John Darnielle

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells

“the mind of the common person is aroused by gain, while that of a sage awakens to justice”

— Dr. Brian Ogawa