"What are these unheard of sins you condemn……" — Sinclair Lewis
"What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?"
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61 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis has 61 quotes on this site.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth…
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's…
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If…
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the…
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More Condemn Quotes
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one of 412 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
— Georges Bernanos
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
— Albert Camus
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If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as…
— Richard Carmona
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
— Jimmy Carter
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize…
— Deepak Chopra
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
— Emile Durkheim
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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
— Georg Groddeck
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