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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.


George Orwell


#designed #give #language #lies #make

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.


Philip Stanhope


#certain degree #degree #fear #fools #great

If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.


Michelle Hunziker


#amuse #both #countries #dynamic #german

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.


Thomas Frank


#answer #any #ask #beltway #both

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.


Frederick The Great


#great #guns #kings #most #respectable

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.


John Updike


#art #change #convictions #customs #facts

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.


Jerry Bridges


#jerry-bridges #respectable-sins #worldliness #respect

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.


Desmond Tutu


#been #case #church #community #death

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.


Kim Cattrall


#chew #gossip #job #just #out

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.


Joseph Conrad


#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe






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