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In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. ↗

— Iris Chang

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Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) ↗

— Robin R. Meyers

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No pope ever condemned slavery. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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