Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we…
— Pope John Paul II
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Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor…
— Thomas Merton
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The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew…
— Bertrand Russell
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It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve…
— Jimmy Carter
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Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you…
— George H. W. Bush
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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology…
— Tony Benn
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During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But…
— George W. Bush
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If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and…
— Eugene V. Debs
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It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And…
— Haruki Murakami
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It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
— Paul Valery
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If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how…
— George MacDonald
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If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.
— Leon Kass
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom…
— John Stuart Mill
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But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine…
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
— Thomas Paine
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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