Favour Quote by Terry Eagleton Download Open image “Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.” — Terry Eagleton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favour Favours Humanity Indulge Nature of man Those Who
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In life I have learn one of best thing is that do not take favor from anybody because when we realized that favor very… — Yash Copy Share Image
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Our assignment of worth to others, our unconditional love of even those who would seem most unworthy of it, becomes our response to those… — John Cullinan Copy Share Image
“You know, it's such a peculiar thing--our idea of mankind in general. We all have a sort of vague, glowing picture when we say… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What we consume now is not objects or events, but our experience of them. Just as we never need to leave our cars, so… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice. — Kurt Rambis Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
