Condemn

Famous quotes containing the word condemn:

    “You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “When I reflect to what a cause this man devoted himself, and how religiously, and then reflect to what cause his judges and all who condemn him so angrily and fluently devote themselves, I see that they are as far apart as the heavens and the earth are asunder.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)