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Such people can also mobilize the worst instincts and passions, make masses fanatic, leading them into hell.
The fund will harness today’s passions and key innovations.
And why has Sarkozy proved to be so resilient, despite the often negative passions aroused by his personality?
Burden-sharing is a sensitive issue, for both NATO and the international community, and passions sometimes run high.
In an extreme form, luxury hotels are now organizing service in local community projects as a way of engaging the passions of their wealthy patrons.
But if the douceur of sports can channel aggressive passions into benign, if trivial pursuits, why should we deny our star performers their heroic stature?
In fanning vicious anti-immigrant passions for short-term political gain, he will have dishonor first and then defeat.
Not so in modern Western democracies, where personal passions are, at least in theory, supposed to be completely separate from the impersonal representation of group interests.
We may not want politicians to be driven by self-interest, but we need to acknowledge that they have selves, which are formed by a multitude of factors – and passions.
The challenge today is to channel such passions into results.
But human nature is a bundle of conflicting passions and possibilities.
It seems silly that public passions in Pakistan are being stirred by false claims that India is diverting water from the Indus River; candid and open talk to the Pakistani public by Indian officials would help dispel such suspicions.
But when those passions fly in the face of the facts and put us at risk, it is entirely fair that in the name of public health and safety, you and I and our governments all say, “Enough is enough.”
He must recognize the power and the prerogatives of the Security Council, especially its five permanent members, while staying attentive to the priorities and passions of the General Assembly.
The government has not taken him seriously, but his suggestion indicates how inflamed passions have become.
In doing so, he confirmed Madison’s fear that if bureaucracy, established procedure, and deliberation cannot transcend the passions of a majority faction, then there can be no “republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government.”
“We want you to be true to yourself, to follow your passions, even if this means we must let you go!” they are told.
“And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy,” which he called “a mark of our liberty.”
They should remember, though, that starting a Kulturkampf is to play with fire: it might be possible to instrumentalize religious passions for a time; but such passions cannot permanently be controlled from above.
The backlash in Italy is another predictable (and predicted) episode in the long saga of a poorly designed currency arrangement, in which the dominant power, Germany, impedes the necessary reforms and insists on policies that exacerbate the inherent problems, using rhetoric seemingly intended to inflame passions.
Science and technology can never be a panacea; the neutrality of the scientific method will always run up against the passions and interests of politics, which can drive scientists to create nerve gas and atomic weapons as readily as new seeds and desalinated water.
DENVER – Not since 1989 has the world seen such an all-consuming, all-engulfing wildfire of freedom and democracy, whose burning passions are sweeping across a region vast and old and desperately in need of reform.
As Clinton struggles to inspire, Trump is stirring up people’s basest passions.
In our everyday lives, reason and passions are mixed.
All passions, emotions and instincts are pushed over to the side of the spectators.
While in play, they are supposed to act as pure rational beings who leave behind their everyday passions and emotions, personal wishes or fears.
Russia’s heavy-handed pressure on Georgia and its support of secessionist movements in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two unrecognized republics within Georgia, inflames passions and risks destabilizing the already tense Northern Caucasus.
Presenting the biographies of 12 Roman emperors, Suetonius shows how these men used their extraordinary power to indulge their own passions and peccadillos, no matter how weird or reckless.
For most people in advanced economies, education is how one feeds one’s curiosity, discovers one’s passions, and learns to look after oneself, navigating the worlds of work and civic and social life.
Their fraudulent independence bid inflamed popular passions and, aided by the deliberate proliferation of fake news, encouraged a profound sense of injustice and confrontation with the rest of Spain.
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