It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we… — Timothy Pickering Copy Share Image
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
