#condemn

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#armaments #available #axes #battle #condemned

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America. ↗

— James Inhofe

#america #borne #condemning #exactly #human

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#condemned #die #kill #thus #time

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? ↗

— Mary Astell

#another #applauded #case #condemn #held

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#blame #condemn #disaster #fantasize #feel

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#begin #ceased #clear #condemned #either

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#clear #condemn #duty #his #integrity

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#face #failing #frustration #job #meet

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive