Affront Quotes

59 quotes by 56 authors

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
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
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
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
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
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. — Albert Einstein
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. — Edward Abbey
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
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
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity. — Silvio Berlusconi
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner. — Mark Twain
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
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you — Giles Fraser
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
Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin â€” it bends the will away… — Timothy Keller
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
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
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. — Al Swearengen
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God. — Stephen L. Richards

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