Infamy Quotes

63 quotes by 53 authors

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not… — Samuel Johnson
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such… — James Madison
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis de Sade
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser… — Denis Diderot
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the… — Thomas Jefferson
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes… — Marquis de Sade
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the… — Hal Porter
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished… — Alexander Hamilton
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life — Pierre Corneille
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power. — Park Geun-hye
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no… — Sidney Hook
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded… — Johann Ludwig Tieck
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. — Benjamin Franklin
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity… — Robert Walpole

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