#oath

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. ↗

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#awfulness #consciousness #everywhere #existence #him

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#charged #decision #did #i #i think

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#front #i #know #oath #testified

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. ↗

— Plato

#oath #such #thing

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe. ↗

— Ted Rall

#american workers #bosses #loathe #point #pretty

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. ↗