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Letter "E" » excesses
«Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.»
«I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.»
Author: Pat Buckley
| Keywords:
Connecticut, excesses, French Revolution, resembling, the French, The French Revolution, trip
«My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.»
«Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.»
«Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.»
«That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Racism
| Keywords:
excesses, hopeful, humane, incontestable, poisonous
«Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Faith
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confronted, driven, excesses, free of, impossibility, inhuman, remaining
«Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.»
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