Avowed Quotes

#1. Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

Heinrich Heine

#2. Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.

Marquis De Lafayette

#4. Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

James Madison

#5. Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

Mary Shelley

#6. Sometimes, two people are made for each other. They may come from opposite ends of the earth. Their nations may be sworn to destroy one another. They may be avowed enemies from the very beginning. And it doesn't matter. They belong together.

Caitlin Brennan

#7. The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Elihu Root

#9. This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

#10. To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. The avowed goal of most college students today is preprofessional training or professional credentialing, even if they have no idea what their profession is likely to be.

Thomas Leitch

#12. I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

George Weinberg

#13. It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word. "Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist," she once wrote. "There is no box marked 'other'".

Marisa Meltzer

#15. It's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

Pat Burns

#17. The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.

Henry Thomas Buckle

#18. Modern conservatives are for the most part engaged in conserving only older rather than later versions of liberal individualism. Their own core doctrine is as liberal and as individualist as that of self-avowed liberals.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#19. It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

Eisaku Sato

#20. I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

Boots Riley

#21. You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. - Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)

David Eso

#22. A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

John Stuart Mill

#23. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Napoleon Hill

#24. Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by the belief that Wesleyans were solid upon the central doctrines.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#26. True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times ... if only rarely ... you cannot do without.

Italo Svevo

#27. Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.

Raymond Queneau

#28. Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

August Bournonville

#29. I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.

Muhammad Asad

#30. I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Rob Chapman

#31. Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Charles Babbage

#32. A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#33. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee ...

Howard Zinn

#34. Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

Wole Soyinka

#35. Love rather than fear ... this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope ... surely there is hope for us all.

Bill Hicks

#36. Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#37. He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

John Buchan

#38. You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

Harold S. Kushner

#39. I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

Gary Sloan

#40. They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.

Edith Wharton

#41. I believe that the person who never avowed his unavowed dreams somewhere in his unconscious, in his dreams, feels he has wasted his life, and when he is old he will realize it.

Moshe Feldenkrais

#42. The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

Mahatma Gandhi