- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banished Quotes
What gets pushed out, and why.
These quotes range from republics failing their honest citizens to the quieter kind of banishment, where an old tool or an old hostility simply gets left behind by progress.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen homosexuality as a sin - with the reality of life in modern, pluralistic, secular societies in which gay people cannot be wished away or banished from sight.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can't stay in that state. We're not here to be blissed out all the time.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020