Deceived Quote by Oscar Wilde

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy…

— Theodore Dalrymple

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

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself…

— Denis Diderot

“Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality,…

— Terry Goodkind

We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set…

— Vincent Massey

“That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD’s sake, which we commonly do for our own.…

— Brother Lawrence

The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book…

— Leonard Peltier

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

— Norman Cousins

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

— Toni Morrison

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

— Ben Jonson