Avowed Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case… — Malcolm Muggeridge
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life… — Dalai Lama
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by… — John Stuart Mill
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing… — Eisaku Sato
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to… — Aldous Huxley
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. — Charles Babbage
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. — Elihu Root
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have… — Harold S. Kushner
I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of… — Muhammad Asad
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed,… — Helen Keller
He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first… — John Buchan
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. — Ludwig von Mises
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the… — Wole Soyinka
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance… — Theodore Roosevelt
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the… — August Bournonville
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed,… — Helen Keller

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