"The refusal to take sides on great moral……" — Fulton J. Sheen
"The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction."
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Fulton J. Sheen
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166 Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
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Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let…
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So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am…
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Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our…
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Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen…
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Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded…
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The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in…
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As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born…
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
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When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it…
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All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in…
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing…
— David Icke
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Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is…
— Noam Chomsky
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper…
— Grover Cleveland
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The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
— William J. Murray
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To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed…
— Barbara Smoker
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He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to…
— Jeff Buckley
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Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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