#excess

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#always #aspect #away #carried #cases

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#divine-madness #excess #love #passion #risk

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#giving #greed #need #scripture #sharing

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#age #checks #excess #interest #later

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

#excessive #free #good #security #states

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cant #excess #expression #language #moderation

Excessive fear is always powerless. ↗

— Aeschylus

#always #excessive #fear #powerless

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#dealing #detail #discuss #end #excessive