Condemn Quotes

“I have always been interested in this man. My father had a set of Tom Paine's books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And I can still remember the flash of enlightenment which shone from his pages. It was a revelation, indeed, to encounter his views on political and religious matters, so different from the views of many people around us. Of course I did not understand him very well, but his sincerity and ardor made an impression upon me that nothing has ever served to lessen.

I have heard it said that Paine borrowed from Montesquieu and Rousseau. Maybe he had read them both and learned something from each. I do not know. But I doubt that Paine ever borrowed a line from any man...

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. There is nothing false, little that is subtle, and an impressive lack of the negative in Paine. He literally cried to his reader for a comprehending hour, and then filled that hour with such sagacious reasoning as we find surpassed nowhere else in American letters - seldom in any school of writing.

Paine would have been the last to look upon himself as a man of letters. Liberty was the dear companion of his heart; truth in all things his object.

...we, perhaps, remember him best for his declaration:

'The world is my country; to do good my religion.'

Again we see the spontaneous genius at work in 'The Rights of Man', and that genius busy at his favorite task - liberty. Written hurriedly and in the heat of controversy, 'The Rights of Man' yet compares favorably with classical models, and in some places rises to vaulting heights. Its appearance outmatched events attending Burke's effort in his 'Reflections'.

Instantly the English public caught hold of this new contribution. It was more than a defense of liberty; it was a world declaration of what Paine had declared before in the Colonies. His reasoning was so cogent, his command of the subject so broad, that his legion of enemies found it hard to answer him.

'Tom Paine is quite right,' said Pitt, the Prime Minister, 'but if I were to encourage his views we should have a bloody revolution.'

Here we see the progressive quality of Paine's genius at its best. 'The Rights of Man' amplified and reasserted what already had been said in 'Common Sense', with now a greater force and the power of a maturing mind. Just when Paine was at the height of his renown, an indictment for treason confronted him. About the same time he was elected a member of the Revolutionary Assembly and escaped to France.

So little did he know of the French tongue that addresses to his constituents had to be translated by an interpreter. But he sat in the assembly. Shrinking from the guillotine, he encountered Robespierre's enmity, and presently found himself in prison, facing that dread instrument.

But his imprisonment was fertile. Already he had written the first part of 'The Age of Reason' and now turned his time to the latter part.

Presently his second escape cheated Robespierre of vengeance, and in the course of events 'The Age of Reason' appeared. Instantly it became a source of contention which still endures. Paine returned to the United States a little broken, and went to live at his home in New Rochelle - a public gift. Many of his old companions in the struggle for liberty avoided him, and he was publicly condemned by the unthinking.

{The Philosophy of Paine, June 7, 1925}”
― Thomas A. Edison, Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”
― Germany Kent

“Be very careful when you judge another human being. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?”
― Susan B Anthony Collection

“Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules”
― Topsy Gift

“If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Don’t use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Never criticize, complain or condemn. Never forget to appreciate with love what is good in a person.”
― Debasish Mridha MD

“It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.”
― Christina Engela

“Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection.”
― Christina Engela

“That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking and sleeping first in one room, then in another, or in the vast patio with its fountains, or on the roof, leading the existence of nomads inside the beautiful shell which was the house. If he had felt that they were capable of discarding their utter preoccupation with the present, in order to consider the time not yet arrived, he would straightway have lost interest in them and condemned them as corrupt.”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House

“Let me warn you again, in case your ghost ever tries to condemn me.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker

“Do not condemn anyone, allow them to go their own way.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“Don't condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“If you measure your happiness by the absence of problems, you will then condemn your soul to a life of resentment and anger.”
― Anoir Ou-chad, The Alien

“Peter stands by the gate,
And Michael by the throne.
'Peter, I would pass the gate
And come before the throne.'
'Whose spirit prayed never at the gate
In life nor at the throne,
In death he may not pass the gate
To come before the throne:'
Peter said from the gate;
Said Michael from the throne.”
― Adelaide Crapsey, Verse

“Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better.”
― Debasish Mridha

“He hasn’t only forgiven your sins, he has also forgotten about them. Do not condemn yourself!”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“You can be aware of what you're not, without condemning yourself for where you are.”
― Richie Norton

“Crucify me, I won't condemn your surrender unto me”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Christ Jesus do not condemn but show compassion.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Those who condemn the product of other people's labour make their own labour unproductive.”
― Elijah Onyemmeri

“Everything that we going through in life we didn't ask for it,yes sometimes it may look like we asked it through our confusing deeds but it meant to be remember all things works to be good cause everything created to worship God's name that means no mistakes, late or early there're reasons of things that heppens to you, may not have answers of it sametime but along the way you'll get it.Now stop condeming yourself or judge each other tell us where you coming from with your experience so that you can save others and learn on in it as i did.”
― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

“Why?” Francesca asked, jolting her back from those outrageous musings. “Because he’s a rake?” She furrowed her brow. “It hardly seems fair to condemn the gentleman for gossip attached to his name.”
― Christi Caldwell, The Lure of a Rake

“People will be afraid of immorality again. Not because of the fear of God, nor because of the condemnation of the environment. Because of their own experience.”
― Vladimir Živković, A Guide to the Psyche of Atheism, Religion and Philosophy and Their Impact on Contemporary Spirituality

“What is your name, so that I may condemn you as well?" -- Kara”
― Faye Hollidaye, The Other Way