Ben Lindsey famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
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Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship
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I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
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The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.
-- Ben Lindsey
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
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The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
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I did experiment with ***** when I was a youth.
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