"Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel;……" — Richard Whately
"Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong."
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Richard Whately
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47 Quotes by Richard Whately
Richard Whately has 47 quotes on this site.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners…
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are…
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the…
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To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange…
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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of…
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Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral…
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
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Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
— Joseph Addison
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people…
— Bjork
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of…
— Benjamin Britten
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Terror made me cruel.
— Emily Bronte
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
— Leo Buscaglia
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