The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? — Joanna Brooks Copy Share Image
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel,… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it… — Plato Copy Share Image
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
