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“Passions change, politics are immutable.”

Passion Politics Power

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.”

People Passion Politics Life Changing

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.”

“The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.”

Heart Political Passion Politics Understanding Party Bigotry Absurdity Strife Gross Stimulus Benevolent

Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.”

Men May Political Passion Politics Taught Revolution Lessons Sincerity Dogma Political Systems French Revolution

Book:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.”

Happiness Political Passion Politics Scene My Family Quitting Sincere Retiring My Passion Bosoms Turmoil Political Turmoil

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.”

Way Passion Politics

Author:Mason Cooley

“But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?”

“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.”

“Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.”

Political Passion Politics Grows Tired

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.”

Eye Action Passion Politics Results Effects Design Glory Excellent Glorious Statesmen Dazzle Luster

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.”

Humans Heart Government Passion Politics Ambition Human Heart Insatiable Uncontrollable

Author:John Adams

“The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.”

Source: The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams

“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”

Ifs Government Political Passion Politics Members Office Vote Congress Operations Patriotic

Book:The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency

Source: The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency