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Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much towards the taming of the asocial instincts. But not enough. It has ruled human society for many thousands of years and has...

—Sigmund Freud

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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it, ‘all men are created equal, except...

—Abraham Lincoln

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We’re all looking for a bit of recognition, even if it’s the unconscious and hypocritical need for attention over the fact that we’re not publically seeking out attention.

—Abby Rosmarin

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There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

—Criss Jami

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It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it “social justice”.

—Jakub Bożydar

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civic-minded” individuals whose true selfishness was veneered over with public generosity. Such men as these opposed him and sent Him to His death.

—Fulton J. Sheen

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When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.

—Donna Lynn

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But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they...

—John Kennedy Toole

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[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It’s just like the crow,...

—Moderata Fonte

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yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment...

—Moliere

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed...

—Samuel Butler

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

—Virginia Woolf

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When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.

—Shannon L. Alder

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It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of chicks. Vietnam, excuse me? Why would I wanna go get my ass shot...

—Ben Fountain

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I don’t understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful;...

—C. JoyBell C.

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By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were….Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You...

—Erwin Schrödinger

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The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

—Edward Short

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Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

—Idries Shah

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Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at...

—G.K. Chesterton

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God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people’s sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman. … But...

—Knut Hamsun

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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

—Jorge Luis

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You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

—Orson Scott

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It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

—Noël Coward

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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even...

—Umberto Eco

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There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

—Shannon L. Alder

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If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider ‘not spiritual work’ I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is...

—Amy Carmichael

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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil,...

—Catherynne M.

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Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the rest of them, ‘the truth don’t matter to you. If Jesus had redeemed...

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Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

—François de

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Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful]...

—Christine de

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Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has taught, they are criticized for it. They are told that because they have...

—Lionel Suggs

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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to...

—Mary Wollstonecraft

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Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river’s current, that box of stone closed...

—Victor Hugo

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These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy…walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, ‘Business as usual.’ But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a...

—Yann Martel

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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against...

—Robert Ingersoll

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As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men...

—Abraham Lincoln

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Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don’t do, and more in light of what...

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their “Amens” and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but...

—Dennis Lehane

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Compassion is a lifetime business. You can’t say something like, “I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel”. That is hypocrisy.

—Israelmore Ayivor

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Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: ‘I had and have no involvement with...

—Glenn Greenwald

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All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another’s presence just as...

—O. Henry

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When you hear men talking,” said Cornelia, “all they ever do is speak ill of women. … And I don’t quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly...

—Moderata Fonte

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We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that...

—Moliere

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Religious freedom doesn’t include the freedom to disregard the law and restrict another’s freedom to believe and act differently. No one’s forcing Catholic nuns to practice birth control, or priests to wear condoms (good idea...

—Quentin R.

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Chastity … has, even now, a religious importance in a woman’s life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day...

—Virginia Woolf

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Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justicia. Yo no encuentro nada tan extraordinario como los Padres, que aquí luchan contra...

—Voltaire

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