“The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep. Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profondeur.”
Carl Mathieu
“Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it”
Tom Robbins
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
Lao Tzu
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion”
Lord Hailsham
“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself”
Miguel de Unamuno
“Judge not my passion, by my want of skill,Many love well, though they express it ill.”
Anne Finch