Travesty Quotes

• Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

  Kevin E. Trenberth

  Energy, Facts, Global Warming

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Justice, Humanity, Age

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• Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Jail, Trying, Rotten

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• To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Believe, Character, Men

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• It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Inferiors, Superiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Government, Hands, Law

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• How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

  Gail Carriger

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, March On Washington, Laughing

  "Donald Trump once called Electoral College 'a disaster'; now says it's 'actually genius'" by Jennifer Earl, www.cbsnews.com. November 10, 2016.

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• Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Christian, Ethics, Morality

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• The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

  Donny Osmond

  Population, World, Hunger

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• I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

  Joe Rogan

  Children, Feels

  "Joe Rogan On the Bigger, Crazier ‘Fear Factor’ Return, Miley Cyrus, ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ & More". Interview With Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Rights, People

  "David Bianculli's Top 10 TV Shows Of 2008". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 23, 2008.

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• The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

  Alan Keyes

  Animal, Abuse, Slavery

  Alan Keyes' Speech in Wisconsin, www.keyesarchives.com. March 26, 2000.

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• Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

  Mary B. Harris

  Revenge, Character, Government

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• To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Safety, Different

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• You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.

  George Washington Carver

  Years, Land, Suffering

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• Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Art, Epic

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• It's a travesty for the games. It's cutting into the heart of this community.

  Mike Dunlap

  Heart, Cutting, Games

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• As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ordinary, Citizens, Development

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Southern, Literature, Slavery

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Travel, Home, World

  Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

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• We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.

  Marianne Williamson

  Men, Important, Looks

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I saw out of these guys who were in their 50s and 60s, who had defined and in many ways laid the foundation for the NFL being what it is today.

  Howie Long

  Nfl, Guy, Foundation

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• If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.

  Eve Ensler

  Dream, Thinking, Sick

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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