#pious

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. ↗

— Aeschylus

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. ↗

— William M. Evarts

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Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. ↗