Affront Quotes
59 quotes by 56 authors
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like…
— Richard Dawkins
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If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
— Mark Twain
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It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.
— Albert Einstein
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
— Edward Abbey
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I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe,…
— Thom Yorke
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Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his…
— Ian Fleming
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These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
— Silvio Berlusconi
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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
— Mark Twain
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Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization;…
— Chuck Baldwin
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Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you
— Giles Fraser
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Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away…
— Timothy Keller
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The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because…
— Oscar Arias
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to…
— Scott Anderson
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Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
— Al Swearengen
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.
— Stephen L. Richards
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