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“True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.”

Littles Reason Passion Influence Subjects Victim Instance Lottery Matrimony Cupid

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.”

World Persons Home Passion Emotion Health Habit Hatred Sick Victim Hospitals Places Of Peace

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.”

Firsts Has Beens War Feelings Mother Passion Tragedy Murder Victim Jealousy Harbour

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.”

Passion Force Social Justice Victim Strikes

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.”

People World Hard Happens Humanity Passion Waiting Hair Shapes Tragedy Died Victim Scary Deities

Author:Bill Murray

“I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.”

Thinking Feels Mind Passion Black Pieces Identity Gay Intellectual Aspect Victim Property Complexes Extraordinary Oneself Mysterious Complexity Internals Ambiguous Vulgarity

Author:Philip Pullman

“I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.”

Passion Creatures Victim Tired Circles Phases I Am So Tired

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.”

World Needs Long Joy Passion Victim Injustice Legs Stores Lawyer Obedience Endurance Our World Lungs Sturdy

Author:Gary Haugen

“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”

Men Should Passion Female Victim Ancient Casts Plot Should I

Book:A Lifetime Burning

Source: A Lifetime Burning

“Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.”

Needs Passion Victim Injustice Legs Oppression Endurance Lungs

Author:Gary Haugen

“They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.”