"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was……" — Lionel Blue
"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."
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50 Quotes by Lionel Blue
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in…
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My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've…
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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish…
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom…
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
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It's more fun to watch without joining in.
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils…
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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection…
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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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