Character Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Honesty Men Notion Prejudice Racism Religion Virtue Weed
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image