John Gardiner Calkins Brainard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.
I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though Iâ€™m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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