Passions, private aims, and the satisfaction of selfish desires, are ... most effective springs of action. Their power lies in the fact that they respect none of the limitations which justice and morality would impose on them; and [they] have a more direct influence over man than the artificial and tedious discipline that tends to order and self-restraint, law and morality.
GEORG HEGEL (1770 - 1831), Introduction (3.2.2) to Philosophy of History, 1832, tr. John Sibree, 1900.
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