Unworthy Quotes - Page 11

• In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

  David Klinghoffer

  Law, Lasts, Natural

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• I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Believe, Would Be, Ifs

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Children, Husband

  "Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

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• When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way.

  Laozi

  Laughing, Would Be, Way

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.61, Chinese University Press

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• Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884".

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• For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

  John Calvin

  Numbers, Mankind, Ought

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Wish, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.34, Routledge

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• The American people have no idea they are paying the bill.  They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids up our prices.  They do not realize that these groups also are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value by and through the Federal Reserve System.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Selfish, Thinking, Ideas

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• The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, People, World

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• As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Prayer, Long

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.364, Cambridge University Press

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• I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it

  Louise Hay

  Life, Self Esteem, Acceptance

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  Tara Brach

  Self, Psychology, Feelings

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• The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Integrity, Men

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• I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

  "Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

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• In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Exercise, Voice

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• Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

  Matthew Scully

  Unjust, Sometimes, Tradition

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.314, Souvenir Press

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• When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime. That is why the true warrior cannot speak of battle save to his brothers who have been there with him. The truth is too holy, too sacred, for words." -Suicide (Gates of Fire)

  Steven Pressfield

  Suicide, Brother, Heart

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Lying, Names

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• In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Mean, Long

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• How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

  Elif Safak

  Thinking, Blame, Think Of You

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• Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Wise, Secret, Sensible

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• For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Two, Morality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.120, Routledge

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• Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Childhood, Needs

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• Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

  Will Durant

  Achievement, Doe, Pale

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

  Gautama Buddha

  Desire, Might, Emptiness

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