Alexander Hume Quotes
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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I believe in using words, not fists.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
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To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
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Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
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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.
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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.
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The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"
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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
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Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.
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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.
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I believe in the magic and authority of words.
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Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
