Famous quotes containing the word excesses:
“... patriotism cannot go back to an innocent time before the murderous excesses of twentieth-century nationalism.”
—Jean Bethke Elshtain (b. 1941)
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)