I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

They have ruled themselves out,

That doesn't mean I've ruled anything else in or out,