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

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There — Victor Hugo

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses. — Ian Gardner

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners. — Rosemary Verey

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. — George Will

We pay when old for the excesses of youth. — J.B. Priestley

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

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. — Marty Meehan

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. — James Chanos

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. — Pleasant Rowland

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another. — Hippocrates

Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition. — Kara Cooney

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! — Joseph Joubert

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. — Michel De Montaigne

The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press. — Salvador De Madariaga

Most of Ludwig's excesses involved pursuits popular among Bavarians, who shared his love for hiking, drinking, and over the top decorating — Susan Barnett Braun

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction. — Swami Vivekananda

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do. — Stephen Daldry

Down close to certain flowers
all excesses are sufficiencies — David Giannini

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age. — Charles Caleb Colton

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with. — Horace

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. — Richard Le Gallienne

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse. — Ben Bernanke

I love the excesses of beauty,
there is never enough sunlight
in the world I will live in,
never enough room for love. — Eric Gamalinda

What do the good know?' he said. 'Except what the bad teach them by their excesses? — Clive Barker

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. — Lillian B. Rubin

Conquer with forbearance
The excesses of insolence. — Thiruvalluvar

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds. — Greg Giraldo

Power and privilege assigns to those without it the task of paying for its excesses — William Hageman

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. — Bernard Tschumi

Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses! — Michael R. Burch

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. — Horace

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. — Chuck Schumer

There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard! — Jean De La Bruyere

Love. Really, it's responsible for the most vulgar excesses. — Beatriz Williams

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

My sin grew sleek on my excesses. — Augustine Of Hippo

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. — Sophie Swetchine

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable. — Marilynne Robinson

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith

Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses. — Nalini Singh

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

The drunken instinct will usurp all others, unless the drunken instinct has itself been usurped, by its own excesses. — Robert Black

It's all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses. — Helen M. Ryan

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. — Iain M. Banks

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era. — Jeff Greene

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! — Jean De La Bruyere

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin

Reality is a creation of our excesses. — Emile M. Cioran

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. — Rembrandt