Counterfeit Quotes

90 Counterfeit quotes by 79 unique authors

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. — Ezra Taft Benson
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. — Theodor Adorno
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and… — Samuel Johnson
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and… — Dan Barker
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on… — Laozi
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are… — Charles Spurgeon
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. — Honore de Balzac
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. — Lord Byron
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life. — David Lloyd-Jones
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values… — Calvin Coolidge
The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit. — Ron Paul
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain… — Virginia Foxx
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally… — C S Forester
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how… — Marcel Proust
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit. — Saint Augustine
Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his… — Christopher West
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit.… — James Salter
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were — John Donne

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