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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. -- Alexander Herzen
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children. -- Gisele Bundchen
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so. -- Paul Singer
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. -- Larry Elder
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. -- Marquis de Sade
I'm very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone. -- Armin van Buuren
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. -- Cesare Beccaria
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. -- Chuck Schumer
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The law is reason, free from passion. -- Aristotle
Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man. -- Aristotle
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it. -- Matthew McGrory
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. -- H. Rider Haggard

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