“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

— Karl Marx

Author's prefaces to the First Edition.
(Buch I) (1867)

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German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and … 1818–1883

Karl Schroeder book Ventus

Galas scowled. “They were never threatened! Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as ‘policy.’”
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 17 (p. 246)

“From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.”

Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 19, p. 97
Leviathan (1651)

“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”

Albert Camus book The Rebel

Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)

“For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.”

Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time

Sculpting in Time (1986)

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our breasts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Non-Violence in Peace and War p. 254 http://books.google.com/books?id=F3ofAAAAIAAJ&q=%22cloak+of%22&pg=PA254 (1948); also in Gandhi on Non-violence: Selected Texts from Mohandas K. Gandhi's Non-Violence in Peace and War (1965) edited by Thomas Merton; this has also appeared in paraphrased form as "if there is violence in our hearts."
1940s

“Stirner and Nietzsche … reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.”

John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 38

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

“The finest fury is the most controlled.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Of all violent passions, the least unbecoming to a woman is love.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.
Maxim 466.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”

John Locke book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book IV, Ch. 20, sec. 17
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

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