"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Morality, Judgment, Perception, Ethics

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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

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"I've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Character, Endurance, Circumstance, Growth

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Morality, Loyalty, Honor, Bravery, Commitment

"Be annoyed and sin not."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Morality, Sin, Patience, Behavior, Truth

"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Morality, Truth, Violence, Life, Death

"It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Morality, Silence, Indifference, Action, Time

"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.....Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, don't nest in corncribs,they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Harper Lee, American Novelist

Morality, Compassion, Truth, Observation

"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."

Shirley Chisholm, American Politician

Morality, Profit

"Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

Morality, Hypocrisy, Responsibility, Truth

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."

Jesse Helms, American Politician

Morality, Principles, Support

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"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

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"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."

Philosophy

"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then."

Philosophy

"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

Wisdom

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Education

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

Philosophy

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."

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"I've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material."

"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

"Be annoyed and sin not."

"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."

"It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."

"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."

"Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy."

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."

Explore more quotes by Blaise Pascal

"To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man."

"I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise."

"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

"Man is only a reed the weakest thing in nature but he is a thinking reed."

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Imagination decides everything."

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."