Ill Gotten Gain Quotes

#1. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

Michael Dorris

#2. The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

A.B. Simpson

#3. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

Tom Stoppard

#4. Ethics do not require that lies be told to children by evil old men

Christopher Hitchens

#5. In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

Marcel Proust

#6. The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

#7. It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
abstruse books of philosophy.

Czeslaw Milosz

#8. Celebrity is intoxicating.

Chris Pratt

#9. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

Ted Dekker

#10. You were a risk, a mistery, and the most certain thing I'd ever known.

Beau Taplin

#11. Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

Michael Storm

#12. Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

Don Lemon

#13. Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Sting

#14. The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

Albert Camus

#15. It shouldn't matter whether you understand it or not, August. Or whether it would be enough of a challenge for you or not. It's Seth's dream. Not yours.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#16. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

Maria Montessori

#17. How come she has more crap here now than when she lived with me? their father grumbled as he came down one morning.

Debra Anastasia

#18. Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Sophocles