Richard Whately Quotes

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Richard Whately

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• I’ve said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.

  

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• I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

  

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• If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

  

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• To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Judgment
  • Traditions
  • Imperfect