"Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to……" — James L. Buckley

"Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image."

— James L. Buckley

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20 Quotes by James L. Buckley

James L. Buckley has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that…
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the…
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the…
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in…
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as…
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale…
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two…
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which…
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls…
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the…

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More Dismaying Quotes

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I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents… — Dian Fossey
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the… — Lionel Trilling
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of… — Mikhail Bakunin
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power… — Anna Wintour
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps,… — Tony Kushner
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and… — Henry Kirke White
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold… — Hendrik Hertzberg
Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. — Pat Conroy
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed… — Graham Swift
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing. — Edward Norton

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