Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Benjamin Whichcote

Sins of the mind have less infamy than those of the body, but not less malignity.

Body | Infamy | Mind |

William Hazlitt

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. This makes nothing in their favor, but is a proud compliment to man’s nature. Whatever he is or does, he cannot entirely efface the stamp of the divinity on him. Let him strive ever so, he cannot divest himself of his natural sublimity of thought and affection, however he may pervert or deprave it to ill.

Crime | Divinity | Infamy | Man | Nature | Nothing | Religion | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Thought | Vice |

L. Ron Hubbard, fully Lafayette Ron Hubbard

There is no war not based on lies, there is no infamy alive without its kindred kin, deceit.

Infamy | War |

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Crime | Infamy | Kill | Right | Servitude |

Pierre Cornielle

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

Infamy |

Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL

To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.

Infamy | Man | Present | Sacred |

Samuel Gregory

The introduction of men into the lying in chamber in place of female attendants, has increased the suffering and dangers of childbearing women, and brought multiplied injuries and fatalities upon mothers and children; it violates the sensitive feelings of husbands and wives and causes an untold amount of domestic misery. The unlimited intimacy between a male profession and the female population silently and effectually wears away female delicacy and professional morality, and tends probably more than any other cause in existence, to undermine the foundation of public virtue.

Infamy | System |

Samuel Adams

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Care | Danger | Duty | Freedom | Infamy | Inheritance | Necessity | Present | Rights | Will | Worth | Danger |

Stephen Vizinczey, born István Vizinczey

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Delusion | Infamy | Men | Parents | People |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Despise | Infamy | Man | Public | Will | Worth |

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.

Chance | Cowardice | Despise | Ends | Evil | Good | Growth | Indulgence | Infamy | Justice | Luxury | Man | Mind | Peace | Public | Regard | Spirit | Will | Worth | Loss |

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Difficulty | Infamy |

Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers

Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.

Cost | Defeat | Hope | Infamy | Sense | Soul | Struggle | Suffering | Tragedy |

Washington Irving

Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

Infamy | Libel |

William Shakespeare

Come hither, come hither, come hither: here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.

Better | Conquest | Good | Grace | Hope | Infamy | Looks | Lord | Love | Nobility | Peace | Wavering | Will | Think |