sanctimony quotes

Democracy presumes that we can behave as one community, caring together for our common life, and disagreeing productively and honestly with one another. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. It is time for us to be prudent and active. Clarence Thomas. That's what we do in this country. Votes: 4, The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. In you all is united which is needful for governing.” ― Aristophanes, The Knights. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone. We should try to listen to the views we find abhorrent and try to be able to summarize them in ways that are accurate. That's the American Dream. I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968”, “As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.”, “In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.”, “The best measure of a politician’s electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people’s desires, but how well he could tap their fears.”, “Demagoguery is powerfully reduced when it stops getting people elected, and that usually happens because of in-group policing. Demagoguery isn't about what politicians do; it's about how we, as citizens, argue, reason, and vote. Good disagreements happen when people with different kinds of expertise and points of view talk and listen to one another, and when we try, honestly and pragmatically, to determine the best course of action for our whole community. Votes: 0, A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. “Democracy is about disagreement, uncertainty, complexity, and making mistakes.

Votes: 0, As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side. Votes: 0, You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you've been ruling the world?On butchery and murder! It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true - his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Our differences make our decisions stronger. I yelled back.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone. It's about having to listen to arguments you think are obviously completely wrong; it's about being angry with other people, and their being angry with you. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. Votes: 4, He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

But its hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an extremist way of eating. I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. Votes: 4, Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening. When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. And if you do choose to argue with them, you'll be able to show that you know what they believe - you won't be relying on a garbled secondhand version of it.”, “We now know that slavery was indefensible, that segregation was bad, that we should not have allowed eugenicists to forcibly sterilize sixty thousand people for being 'defective,' that Japanese internment was a ghastly breach of everything that America is supposed to be, that lynching 'uppity' non-whites is unquestionably evil, that sending Jews who had managed to escape Hitler's genocide back to Germany was an appallingly unethical thing to do. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth.

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