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"Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing."

Emotion, Feelings, Devotion, Longing

"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."

Death, Food, Strength, Bravery

"Pride and excess bring disaster for man."

Disaster, Excess, Man, Pride

"Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature."

Nature, People, Humannature, Now

"Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion."

Music, Emotion, Harmony, World

"When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm."

Time, Fact, Harm, Man

"Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal."

Nature, Society, End, Quarrels

"Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that."

Nature, Humannature

"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."

People, Principles, Ritual, Teachers

"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."

Nature, People, Principles, Ritual

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"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Power, Persuasion

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Power, People, Harm

"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."

Hank Aaron, American Athlete

Power, Weapons

"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Power,

"One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Power, Country, Right

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

John Acton, English Historian

Power,

"India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it."

Gary Ackerman, American Politician

Power,

"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."

Alvin Adams, American Businessman

Power, Help, Rumor

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Power,

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton, British Historian

Power,