I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up in the idea around our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.