Infamous Quotes
68 quotes by 63 authors
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were…
— David Brainerd
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You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.
— Dave Chappelle
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Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
— Charles Churchill
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more…
— Margaret E. Knight
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
— H. L. Mencken
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Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of…
— Philip J. Corso
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I will either be famous or infamous.
— Otto Dix
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It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany…
— James Byron Bissett
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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example…
— Athenagoras of Athens
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
— H. L. Mencken
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I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as…
— Robert Browning
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A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.
— James Berardinelli
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear…
— Tacitus
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Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of…
— Rebecca Skloot
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In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous,…
— Tom Shales
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It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste…
— William Prynne
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous…
— Polybius
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several…
— Charles Jencks
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