#excess

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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.


John W. Gardner


#conviction #diagnosis #excessively #extremism #identifiable

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.


Will Durant


#excesses #freedom #just #living #look

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.


Anne Hathaway


#class #class family #decadent #excess #family

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.


Jim Hightower


#approach #been #challenge #classic #concentrated

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.


Mark E. Hyman


#both #deficiencies #diet #excesses #impact

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.


John Keats


#appear #excess #fine #highest #his

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.


John Maynard Keynes


#bonds #bursting #convention #disruptive #either

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.


Neil Kinnock


#fills #fine #graveyards #loyalty #political

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


David Korten


#brainwashing #capitalist #defense #economics #excesses