Alexander Hume Quotes
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
Alexander Hume
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
Kate Burridge
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Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
Joseph Lewis
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If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.
Ernest Holmes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
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By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.
Ally Hilfiger
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Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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It was just so cool to put on my uncle's masks and wrestle with him. I knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a part of this world.
Rey Mysterio
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Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
Alexander Hume
