Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?
If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence
Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
I think 'The Condemned' has a great story. It's a lot more than a mindless action flick.
The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.
If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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