Absurd Quote by Samuel Johnson

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man…

— Charles M. Blow

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every…

— Francesco Guicciardini

The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as…

— David Hume

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or…

— Baruch Spinoza

“We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice, but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of…

— Edmund Burke

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn…

— Lysander Spooner

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

— Philip Sidney

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect…

— Thomas Sprat