"Philosophy should always know that indifference is a……" — Stephen Crane
"Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery."
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Stephen Crane
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41 Quotes by Stephen Crane
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
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