John Tillotson Quotes

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

John Tillotson

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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- Men
- Father
- Son
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Oscar Wilde
- People
- Past
- Should
I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Idina Menzel
- People
- Men
- Women
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

Camille Paglia
- Government
- Artist
- Should
Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Time
- Men
- Parents
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

V. S. Naipaul
- Work
- Great
- Men