Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak,… — Baron de Montesquieu
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. — Ambrose Bierce
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological… — Richard Dawkins
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history. — Vincent Bugliosi
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid… — Mona Charen
[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive… — Benjamin Netanyahu
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the… — Walter Russell
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. — G. Gordon Liddy
I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate… — Willy Russell
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not… — Ambrose
A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical… — Carl Sagan
If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them… — Frederic Bastiat
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. — David Hume
I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world — Christine de Pizan
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but… — Robert Greene
Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but… — Thierry Henry
For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is… — Barney Frank
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short… — John Lescroart
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my… — Mary McCarthy
I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the… — Nanci Griffith
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of… — Leszek Kolakowski
Are you not aware that my profession involves beating the living hell out of some poor-unfortunate wearing nothing more than a pair of green lycra… — Sheamus
It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its… — David Mamet
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us… — Steven Biko

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