Deplorable Quotes
58 quotes by 56 authors
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We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
— Evan Bayh
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan…
— David Brainerd
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed…
— Alfred Binet
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
— Barbara Mertz
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It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the…
— Richard Dawkins
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Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
— Edward Albee
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The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a…
— Andrew Goodman
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the…
— Alma Gluck
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
— B. Traven
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True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .…
— Ambrose Bierce
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"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on…
— Charles Bernhard Heyd
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.…
— Horace Greeley
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But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political…
— James Madison
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What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with…
— Cotton Mather
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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