I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter; for by your words you will ...be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wander... helplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a cr...owd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own... natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You who have condemned me, I know your kind. Your forebears poisoned Socrates, burned Joan of Arc, hanged, tortured all those whos...e only offense was to bring light into darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »