Condemned Quote by Storm Constantine

Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous.…

— Alice Hoffman

“Condemned by your people. Opened the second. Condemned by yourself. Opened the third. To see who you were. Opened the fourth. To see who…

— Charlie N. Holmberg

“was our suffering of any consequence to their consciences? Did they see us as victims> Or were we simply nameless, faceless humans who were…

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

“Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man. In a…

— Primo Levi

“For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first…

— Ayn Rand

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

“OFTEN WHEN OUR FALLING AND our wretchedness are shown to us, we are so ... greatly ashamed of ourselves that we scarcely know where…

— Lisa E. Dahill

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

— N. T. Wright

“We did, however, deliver and expel many homosexual and sodomitic demons from my body, mind, heart, mouth, soul, penis, and anus.”

— Charles Benedict

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a…

— Irene Guy Opdyke

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli