Condemned Quotes

484 Condemned quotes by 383 unique authors

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the… — David Keirsey
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go… — Ford Madox Ford
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… — Joseph Conrad
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die… — Margaret Drabble
People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy,… — Rick Doblin
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly… — Albert Einstein
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire… — Ayn Rand
I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong. — Nick Drake
I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering… — P D Ouspensky
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the… — Richard Yates
The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will… — Joseph Conrad
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. — Renee Vivien
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide… — Albert Camus
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore… — Anne Boleyn
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal! — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect… — Michael Coren
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. — Iris Chang
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith
No pope ever condemned slavery. — Joseph McCabe
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking… — Kiran Desai
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history… — James Lee Burke

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