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“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.”

“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.”

Art Seems Passion Destruction Seeds

Author:May Sarton

“And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.”

World Soul Passion Christ Destruction Manifestation Withdrawal

Author:Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

“Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

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Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.”

Source: Wild Roses

“To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”

“Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.”

“My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.”

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Author:Barbara Jordan

“Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.”

Source: Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates

“Only when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spirit, only then we accept the cross and follow Christ. And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.”

World Life Desire Passion Christ Accepting Crosses Destruction Flesh Lust Manifestation Withdrawal

Author:Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

“We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.”

Country Passion Natural Destruction Prejudice Our Country

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”

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Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.”

“In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld