“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?” — Jean Said Makdisi Copy Share Image
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale,… — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt,… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Eva Braun] went to the Nurnberg party rallies starting in 1935. She was there twice and stayed at the Hotel Deutscher Hof,… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image