Quotes about Condemned

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. Votes: 4

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite. Votes: 3

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane. Votes: 3

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away. Votes: 3

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. Votes: 2

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. Votes: 2

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 2

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. Votes: 2

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. Votes: 2

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi. Votes: 2

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Votes: 2

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. Votes: 2

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. Votes: 2

Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord. Votes: 2

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. Votes: 2

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society. Votes: 2

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. Votes: 2

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. Votes: 2

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Votes: 2

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. Votes: 2

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. Votes: 2

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Votes: 2

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. Votes: 2

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. Votes: 2

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Votes: 2

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. Votes: 2

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die. Votes: 2

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense. Votes: 2

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. Votes: 2

No pope ever condemned slavery. Votes: 0

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites. Votes: 0

Man is condemned to be free Votes: 0

We are condemned to live together. Votes: 0

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. Votes: 0

I am a machine condemned to devour books. Votes: 0

War was a dungeon for the spiritually condemned Votes: 0

The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Votes: 0

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned. Votes: 0

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it. Votes: 0

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium. Votes: 0

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. Votes: 0

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? Votes: 0

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive. Votes: 0

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. Votes: 0

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary? Votes: 0

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 0

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction. Votes: 0

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it. Votes: 0

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us. Votes: 0

I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong. Votes: 0

Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building. Votes: 0

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. Votes: 0

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Votes: 0

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 0

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it. Votes: 0

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade. Votes: 0

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless? Votes: 0

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free. Votes: 0

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. Votes: 0

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned. Votes: 0

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. Votes: 0

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! Votes: 0

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. Votes: 0

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. Votes: 0

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? Votes: 0

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. Votes: 0

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something. Votes: 0

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. Votes: 0

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid! Votes: 0

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. Votes: 0

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. Votes: 0

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes. Votes: 0

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm. Votes: 0

I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned. Votes: 0

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us. Votes: 0

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one. Votes: 0

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them. Votes: 0

for a soul condemned to Hell, the sight of an Angel is what is Heaven. Votes: 0

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring." Votes: 0

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that. Votes: 0

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. Votes: 0

If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone Votes: 0

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? Votes: 0

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. Votes: 0

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. Votes: 0

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37 Votes: 0

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves. Votes: 0

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder. Votes: 0

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves. Votes: 0

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. Votes: 0

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. Votes: 0

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. Votes: 0

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. Votes: 0

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. Votes: 0

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy. Votes: 0

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. Votes: 0

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. Votes: 0

In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching! Votes: 0

Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts." Votes: 0

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. Votes: 0

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned. Votes: 0

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. Votes: 0

An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people. Votes: 0

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. Votes: 0

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that? Votes: 0

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself Votes: 0

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life. Votes: 0

We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture. Votes: 0

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. Votes: 0

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious. Votes: 0

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? Votes: 0

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Votes: 0

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned? Votes: 0

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty. Votes: 0

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience. Votes: 0

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. Votes: 0

Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do. Votes: 0

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Votes: 0

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. Votes: 0

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary. Votes: 0

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. Votes: 0

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution. Votes: 0

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. Votes: 0

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. Votes: 0

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel. Votes: 0

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. Votes: 0

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists. Votes: 0

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child. Votes: 0

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 0

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Votes: 0

While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts. Votes: 0

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished. Votes: 0

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock. Votes: 0

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. Votes: 0

Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny. Votes: 0

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others. Votes: 0

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it. Votes: 0

Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one. Votes: 0

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion. Votes: 0

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Votes: 0

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur. Votes: 0

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! Votes: 0

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart... Votes: 0

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior. Votes: 0

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. Votes: 0

If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. Votes: 0

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. Votes: 0

Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior! Votes: 0

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. Votes: 0

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned. Votes: 0

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated. Votes: 0

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence Votes: 0

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world. Votes: 0

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought. Votes: 0

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. Votes: 0

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man." Votes: 0

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man Votes: 0

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives. Votes: 0

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. Votes: 0

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients. Votes: 0

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense. Votes: 0

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory. Votes: 0

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich. Votes: 0

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law. Votes: 0

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism. Votes: 0

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. Votes: 0

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. Votes: 0

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt. Votes: 0

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned. Votes: 0

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. Votes: 0

In this vast universe, we are condemned to feel tiny; megalomaniac is the one who cannot feel the true dimensions of this universe! Votes: 0

Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams! Votes: 0

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned. Votes: 0

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal! Votes: 0

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia. Votes: 0

No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead. Votes: 0

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. Votes: 0

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment. Votes: 0

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings. Votes: 0

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Votes: 0

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. Votes: 0

My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. Votes: 0

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also. Votes: 0

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history. Votes: 0

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants the EU to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man. Votes: 0

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging. Votes: 0

Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity. Votes: 0

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. Votes: 0

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate. Votes: 0

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. Votes: 0

In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing. Votes: 0

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial. Votes: 0

Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote. Votes: 0

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance. Votes: 0

In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice! Votes: 0

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad. Votes: 0

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one. Votes: 0

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell. Votes: 0

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights. Votes: 0

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed "” only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. Votes: 0

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. Votes: 0

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself. Votes: 0

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices. Votes: 0

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder. Votes: 0

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned. Votes: 0

Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women. Votes: 0

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral. Votes: 0

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him. Votes: 0

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday. Votes: 0

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death. Votes: 0

Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned. Votes: 0

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society. Votes: 0

How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear. Votes: 0

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments. Votes: 0

In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures. Votes: 0

If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself. Votes: 0

. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned. Votes: 0

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God. Votes: 0

Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False. Votes: 0

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality. Votes: 0

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural. Votes: 0

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others. Votes: 0

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Votes: 0

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure. Votes: 0

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. Votes: 0

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence. Votes: 0

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. Votes: 0

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them. Votes: 0

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor. Votes: 0

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. Votes: 0

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Votes: 0

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. Votes: 0

...nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages. Votes: 0

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example. Votes: 0

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it. Votes: 0

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational. Votes: 0

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has. Votes: 0

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren. Votes: 0

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks. Votes: 0

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats. Votes: 0

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. Votes: 0

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation. Votes: 0

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition. Votes: 0

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village. Votes: 0

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood. Votes: 0

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village Votes: 0

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it. Votes: 0

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. Votes: 0

When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned. Votes: 0

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation. Votes: 0

Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion. Votes: 0

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality. Votes: 0

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. Votes: 0

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis. Votes: 0

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know Votes: 0

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door. Votes: 0

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image? Votes: 0

The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is "Why aren't all the Christians here? Votes: 0

The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!" Votes: 0

The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good! Votes: 0

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it. Votes: 0

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned. Votes: 0

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. Votes: 0

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man. Votes: 0

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments. Votes: 0

But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. Votes: 0

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference. Votes: 0

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Votes: 0

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood. Votes: 0

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot. Votes: 0

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being. Votes: 0

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self. Votes: 0

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. Votes: 0

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. Votes: 0

Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy. Votes: 0

The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression. Votes: 0

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love." Votes: 0

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. Votes: 0

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence. Votes: 0

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. Votes: 0

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life. Votes: 0

President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons. Votes: 0

THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite. Votes: 0

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. Votes: 0

In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me. Votes: 0

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the leftovers, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells. Votes: 0

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical. Votes: 0

He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned. Votes: 0

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. Votes: 0

Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires. Votes: 0

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths. Votes: 0

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper. Votes: 0

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live! Votes: 0

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned. Votes: 0

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.... Votes: 0

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. Votes: 0

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it. Votes: 0

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. Votes: 0

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it. Votes: 0

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. Votes: 0