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Quotes About Condemnation

To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
~ Ayn Rand
Few were innocent aside from those who had been hanged.
~ Stacy Schiff
Eternal condemnation is the key to selling doorknobs.
~ Stephan Pastis
How did our politics get so poisonous? … You take a little bit of [the poison] so you can hate the other, and it tastes kinda good, and you like how it feels and there's a gentle high to the condemnation. And you know you're right? Right? You know you're right.
~ Stephen Colbert
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.
~ Richard Sibbes
They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell. They don't only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to hell: John iii. 18, "He that believeth not is condemned already.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked . . .1
~ Jonathan Edwards
One of the most universal pieces of advice from across cultures and eras it that we are all hypocrites, and in our condemnation of other's hypocrisy we only compound our own.
~ Jonathan Haidt
There is a special pleasure in the irony of a moralist brought down for the very moral failings he has condemned. It's the pleasure of a well-told joke. Some jokes are funny as one-liners, but most require three verses: three guys, say, who walk into a bar one at a time, or a priest, a minister, and a rabbi in a lifeboat. The first two set the pattern, and the third violates it. With hypocrisy, the hypocrite's preaching is the setup, the hypocritical action is the punch line.
~ Jonathan Haidt
We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them for being the living representations of our own desires. We use them and then blame them for being used
~ Jonathan Maberry
Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
Anti-Semitism as prejudice and social practice, however, remains, yet it is the object of a general condemnation both in civil society and in state institutions.
~ Enzo Traverso
Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.
~ beecher henry ward vii
Any effort to impose national security legislation that does not reflect the will of the people of Hong Kong would be highly destabilizing and would be met with strong condemnation from the United States and the international community.
~ Morgan Ortagus
O Sínodo de Dort em 1618 condenou Armínio como corruptor da fé, embora não tenha chegado ao patamar explícito da Assembleia de Westminster 30 anos depois. Essa última confissão é o marco do ápice do protestantismo. Nenhum outro credo é tão detalhado e tão fiel às Escrituras.
~ Gordon H. Clark
As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, "It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.
~ Gordon S. Wood
The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.
~ Graham Greene
If the Domain is destroyed, I have condemned my husband to an eternity of darkness, silence, with only his own rage and madness to keep him company.
~ Greg Bear
The extent to which we experience our freedom from condemnation in Christ is the extent to which we will realize there is no life in performing.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
~ Gregory Maguire
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
~ Julian Baggini
The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
~ Joseph Prince
In some ways, backing the Trump campaign was even harder than battling for Brexit. I received almost total condemnation, including from many senior figures in my own party.
~ Nigel Farage
Die Psychologie ist schon deshalb zum Scheitern verurteilt, weil wir den absurden Versuch unternehmen, unser Gehirn mit unserem Gehirn verstehen zu wollen.
~ Sebastian Fitzek