Top 100 Condemn'd Quotes
#1. The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise.
Oliver Goldsmith
#2. Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
Mary Astell
#3. That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
They, who the written Rule and never known,
Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.
John Dryden
#4. To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.
Thomas Gray
#5. We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
Jane Austen
#6. To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille
#7. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Those who condemn what they do not understand are, surely, little men.
Sheldon Vanauken
#9. That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.
Neale Donald Walsch
#10. A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.
Swami Vivekananda
#11. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.
Wilhelm Reich
#12. But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing world, even though our judgments condemn our compliance! However, since the die is cast, we must endeavor to make the best of it.
Fanny Burney
#13. Nor would he condemn democracy outright, allowing that it might be appropriate for some countries. Still, he argued that democracy would bring disintegration to Russia, which needed "firm authority.
Stephen Kotkin
#14. When it comes to sin, the only one who has a right to condemn others is Jesus. And he refused.
Judah Smith
#15. And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's all we did. Condemn. And march. But not often enough.
Josephine Hart
#16. I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
Tony Abbott
#17. When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to "please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.
Emma Rose Kraus
#18. The language in which thought is embodied is the mere carcass of the thought, and not the idea itself; tribunals may condemn the form, but the sense and spirit of the work is too subtle for their authority.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#19. Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the temple? No, it only had two stories. Too low. How about the elementary school? No, his ghost might frighten the children if he died there, and people would condemn him.
Ha Jin
#20. Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed - and never will
Martin Wolf
#21. We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
William Hazlitt
#22. Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.
Malcolm Lowry
#23. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
Anonymous
#26. Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.
Billy Graham
#27. Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#28. Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower.
Debasish Mridha
#29. You can't dwell on what might have been ... and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#30. Jesus had not come to condemn the immoral; he had come to rescue them. He had come to gather those who were far off and filthy and wash them clean, to show them mercy and present them to the Father, free from all accusation. PRAYER
Kenneth D. Boa
#31. I will rue for all eternity every moment of suffering I've caused you. The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.
Karen Marie Moning
#32. I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#33. I am a speck of dust in an ocean of time, floating with the waves of change, vanishing with the infinite. I have no time to complain, condemn, or criticize because I am so busy loving, enjoying, appreciating, and being kind.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Never complain, condemn, or criticize; just show them how to do better.
Debasish Mridha
#35. If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.
Tim Allen
#36. The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.
- Cian MacKeltar
Karen Marie Moning
#37. Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#39. And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
Anna Akhmatova
#40. Thou shalt not condemn one's faith to strengthen thy own.
Ilango Boopalan
#41. We have created crime, just as the propertarians did. We force a man outside the sphere of our approval, and then condemn him for it. We've made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all around ourselves, and we can't see them, because they're part of our thinking.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.
Eugene H. Peterson
#44. Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#45. Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.
In beauty, but do not condemn,
The seamen who embark and fail,
But only those who will not sail.
John Piper
#47. Here, there is nothing my size. There's nobody around here to make himself the measure of everything, to praise or condemn others for their size
Haruki Murakami
#49. I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act ... We completely condemn this serious operation ... We were completely shocked ... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.
Yasser Arafat
#50. To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
Diogenes
#51. Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.
Meher Baba
#52. Humanity is always quick to condemn itself.
Vivian Eve
#53. Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major
#54. We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#55. Literature offers feelings for which we don't have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve.
Jonathan Gottschall
#56. I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Chuck Palahniuk
#57. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.
Joss Stirling
#58. You cannot force the Now. - But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
Bruce Lee
#59. There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#60. It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#61. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?
Martha Brockenbrough
#62. I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion
Ziggy Marley
#63. We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.
William Law
#64. America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.
Ronald Reagan
#65. Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof ... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.
Roger Ascham
#66. Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
Ellen Glasgow
#67. Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
Errol Morris
#68. Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#69. Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
#70. You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."
That's right," said Miro.
Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.
Orson Scott Card
#71. Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
Cardinal Richelieu
#72. Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.
Monica Crowley
#73. Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
Jonathan Swift
#74. Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
Paulo Coelho
#75. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#76. I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Walid Jumblatt
#77. China's critics rightly condemn the government for controlling public opinion in all sorts of ways, from imprisoning dissidents to censoring internet discussions. Yet the regime's obsession with control paradoxically means it pays close attention to public opinion.
Anonymous
#79. Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have committed an act similar or even worse than the act that person has done. Then you won't be in a position to judge.
Ellen J. Barrier
#80. But doing something good or remarkable isn't easy. It's much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.
Kanae Minato
#81. Don't condemn what another sees as perfection, just because it doesn't fit your ideals. You want that respect from them, so be the first to give it when considering their position." With
Judith Pella
#82. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends
Milan Kundera
#83. Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#84. If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
William Penn
#85. Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.
David Cameron
#86. Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, 'Well, that's Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#87. If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?
Thomas Watson
#89. What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
Anne Frank
#90. At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
Jane Harman
#91. There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.
Kofi Annan
#92. I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
Harry Hay
#93. You are not one of Pentrigrel's creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette's fate.
T.A. Miles
#94. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
Viktor E. Frankl
#95. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin - one the Savior warned against.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#96. There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#97. As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.
Iqbal Sacranie
#98. We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#99. Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river,
For that some melancholic distracted man
Hath drowned himself in't.
John Webster
#100. We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
George Osborne
