Condemned Quotes
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
John Milton
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Oscar Wilde
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I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, or had any authority to act in the affair.
Samuel Hopkins
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Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
David Hackett Fischer
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!
Wilbur Smith
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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.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
Jonathan Swift
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I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Victor Hugo
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We are condemned to live together.
Albert Camus
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I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.
George Meade