Excess Quote by Will Durant Download Open image “Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excess Government Politics
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. — Charles de Secondat Copy Share Image
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
