Condemned Quotes
484 Condemned quotes by 383 unique authors
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
— Ben Stein
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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
— Adora Svitak
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
— Simone Weil
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals,…
— Hanna Rosin
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
— Anne Fadiman
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned…
— Jose Saramago
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races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world…
— John Adams
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven…
— Elie Wiesel
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
— Victor Hugo
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In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil.…
— Vasily Grossman
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We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to…
— Paulo Coelho
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment…
— Alison Croggon
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So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
— Virginia Woolf
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It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness,…
— George Q. Cannon
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It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking…
— Susanna Clarke
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
— George Santayana
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Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart…
— Martin Luther
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The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
— Mary Jo Putney
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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up…
— Ian Fleming
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Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of…
— Steven Pinker
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