"Once we assuage our conscience by calling something……" — Sydney J. Harris
"Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil."
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141 Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris has 141 quotes on this site.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently…
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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and…
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on…
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need…
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is…
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory…
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity…
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage…
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The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and…
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on…
— Vikram Chatwal
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Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing…
— Calvin Trillin
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
— Arthur Erickson
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Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the…
— John Ringo
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Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do…
— Samuel West
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Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is…
— Gerhard Richter
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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious…
— James Madison
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a…
— Alain de Botton
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