Sentence examples for excite passions from inspiring English sources

Thus "morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions" (T 3.1.1.6/457).

A second further conclusion is that morality (fundamental moral principles) cannot be grounded in reason; this one follows both from his views about the "inertness" of reason generally, and from his assumption that morality is capable of motivating people: "Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions.

"But though her face was beautiful, her person was not formed to excite passion.

They encourage a lazy rhetorical shorthand, which only excites passions and precludes charity (much as "socialist" might in US politics).

Still, her comedy and social criticism, both on stage and in her widely read newspaper columns, have excited passions in the country.

If there is one subject that excites passions in Belize, it is the subject of the secretive Tory peer, who has been a dominant presence in the little Central American country for over two decades.

The Cergy mosque, still at least two years from realization, has already excited passions and led one local opposition politician to warn that its minarets might rise higher than the town's church steeples.

But the tax excites passions because it is said to affect family farms and small businesses, though IRS data indicates that only a tiny portion of the tax comes from business or farm assets.

Following his lead, the Republican high command soon understood that waving the red flag of "limousine liberalism" excited passions and elicited votes.

They threatened with excommunication anybody who prayed with "heretics"—a word which often, in practice, meant the losing side in whichever theological argument had just shaken the Christian world.The issue still excites passion.

What makes football so damaging in English society is that our nationalism is at the moment so poisonous and corrupted that anything that excites nationalistic passions will excite anger and resentment far more than real pride.