Excess Quotes - Page 2

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.

Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

Anything in excess is a poison.