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Tag Name "Infamy" (53)

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Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
John Hawkes
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.
Flora Tristan
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When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.
Edward Young
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The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.
Ray Stevenson
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A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.
Edward Gibbon
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For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.
Lupe Fiasco
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Ezra Pound
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If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.
Lupe Fiasco
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There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
Ricky Gervais
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.
James Madison
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The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down. But it has also been used in other ways. It's also been used as a way of putting a mirror up to racism.
Randall Kennedy
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For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.
Washington Irving
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
Edmund Spenser
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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.
Mark Twain
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
Marquis de Sade
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
Rudolf Virchow
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Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Woody Allen
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Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
Christopher Paolini
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Hermann Hesse
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