#condemned

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#burnt #choose #condemned #graciously #great

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

No pope ever condemned slavery. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#ever #pope #slavery

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#behavior #concept #condemned #feel #freud

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ↗

— William Barclay

#doing #man #may #nothing #something

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#geographic #i #illiteracy #kids #lifetime

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good