“It is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotion — because hatred is involved in it, too.”

“It occurs to you that Ulysses is about cliché. It is about inherited, ready-made formulations - most notably Irish Catholicism and anti-Semitism. After all, prejudices are clichés: they are secondhand hatreds... Joyce never uses a cliché in innocence.”

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

“Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”

“Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.”

“I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.”

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”

““Most people have a price. And they have a price because of human emotions named fear and greed.”

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”