Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."
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Related Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful... SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful... SENECA Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY [I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases ... PATRICK O'NEILL In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension ... ANTHONY SAMPSON Pain Is Caused By Pleasure SULLY ERNA Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are nev... CRISS JAMI Homosexuality, by and large, is not accepted in this society. KURT TIBBETTS War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It's widely regarded (in the department) as one of the greatest faux pas of all time. The department... DAVID NAHAI Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because t... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." <... PHILIP K. DICK Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH ...[M]an and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be a... IMMANUEL KANT Trees emit a wide variety of electromagentic radiation and it is regarded as healthy to live in a na... STEVEN MAGEE I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. ANEURIN BEVAN There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still i... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not reg... BERTRAND RUSSELL There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT Over the last twenty or thirty years, which in the scheme of things is fast, we've become comfortabl... TOM FORD Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to l... JEANETTE WINTERSON But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin inclu... REGGIE WHITE It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too SIGMUND FREUD Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. CONFUCIUS It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only th... PAULO FREIRE A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi... GRAHAM GREENE All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty o... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Governments have reached an important milestone. But it is also a crossroads. The convention doesn't... DICK POUND Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. SALLUST But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin inclu... REGGIE WHITE Whether these matters are to be regarded as sport, or as earnest, we must not forget that this pleas... PLATO Proud is something regarded as highly honourble or creditable to oneself Confident people gain self ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Proud is something regarded as highly honourable or creditable to oneself. Confident people gain sel... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE ...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liber... GEORGE WASHINGTON As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is inter... DAVID RICARDO We're all for the facts about homosexuality getting out, but you won't find them in this publication... JANET PARSHALL Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop... RICHARD BAXTER Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER You can't have someone who is regarded as sectarian as the minister of interior. ZALMAY KHALILZAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime ... JOHN NAISBITT You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. G. K. CHESTERTON By protecting those who live as ,becomes Aryans and by removing the thorns, kings, solely intent on ... GURU NANAK We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA We are not to be regarded as a potent political force to be used by politicians in the furtherance o... LT. GEN. HERMOGENES ESPERON We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has m... ALAIN DE BOTTON Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves th... ALFRED MARSHALL To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury... JAMES HENRY BREASTED The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His produ... LELAND STANFORD God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it i... C.S. LEWIS Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. ... JOHN SERGEANT WISE We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others,... JOHN C. CALHOUN The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such tr... TESS GERRITSEN We are the books we read and the things we love. CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become. EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru... SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool. L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great. EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they... PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fie... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things ... PLATO The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shamefu... PLATO But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or i... FRANK STELLA Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of... CHARLES DE SECONDAT If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&... JON MEACHAM In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a... DEAN KOONTZ A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individ... MILAN KUNDERA Pink is regarded as the color of little girls or the color of effeminate men. ERIN BUZUVIS If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic division... RUDOLF CARNAP No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the v... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, t... JOHN STUART MILL The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the... JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the... JOSEPH ADDISON
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