Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“That’s why it’s hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let… — Maverick Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal."… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image