A Quote by Thomas Paine

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine
English - Activist
January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809

We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.

Eric Schneiderman

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

James Russell Lowell

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Ovid

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Ben Chestnut

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

James Russell Lowell

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

Laozi

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Madeleine L'Engle

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

Camryn Manheim

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

Flannery O'Connor

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Mother Teresa

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

John Stott

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

Dan Barker

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Thomas Fuller

Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product - whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football - our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can't commit fraud.

Eric Schneiderman

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

John Key

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