Easier Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people…

— Idries Shah

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for…

— C. S. Lewis

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you…

— John Lithgow

I'm the least vain person I know. I literally get out the shower, throw a brush through my hair, put jeans and a T-shirt…

— Karren Brady

“He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.) A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the importance of…

— W.H. Auden

“An expert is nothing more than a vain person who has read a book.”

— Corey Taylor

But they all stood beneath the cross, enemies and believers, doubters and cowards, revilers and devoted followers. His prayer, in that hour, and his…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

— Agatha Christie

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands…

— Otto Schily

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

— Immanuel Kant

The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that…

— Noam Chomsky