A Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.
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An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.
I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia." "Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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