#excess

People who newly taste freedom tend to act excessively. ↗

— Toba Beta

#newly-at-freedom #attitude

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

— Neil Kinnock

#fills #fine #graveyards #loyalty #political

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#clean #commitment #economy #environment #equality

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#develop #each #excesses #extremes #free

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#calms #consequences #excess #fatal #heats

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ↗

— Menander

#chief #evil #excess #goodness

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#excessive #him #himself #his #make

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

#did #excesses #god #i #losses

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. ↗

— James Young Simpson

#effects #especially #excess #fatal #nature