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“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses”
James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.”
Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)

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“I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
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“Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.”
Charles Baudelaire quotes (French Poet of Decadent & Parnassian movements. Wrote poetry collection "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1857), 1821-1867)

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“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
Adam Smith quotes (Scottish philosopher and economist, 1723-1790)
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“Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.”
George F. Will quotes (American editor and news commentator b.1941)

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“The excesses of old men incline toward perversion”


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“My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.”
Camille Paglia quotes

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“That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.”
peachesandcream Isaac Asimov quotes (Russian born American science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)
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