“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”– Honore de Balzac Related Quotes “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.”– Joe Biden “I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’”– Alice Walker