Specious Quotes
34 Specious quotes by 30 unique authors
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious…
— Edward Young
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of…
— J D Salinger
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The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must…
— Baruch Spinoza
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People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this…
— David Mitchell
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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A…
— Carl Sagan
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while…
— Vaclav Havel
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She is a prude in her own defence ... under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the decay of her worn-out charms.
— Unknown Author
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30 authors contributed a total of 34 Specious Quotes, led by these top contributors: