Affront Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affront Falsehood
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that,… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
