An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Champagne for my sham friends real pain for my real friends.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
I like a look of Agony, Because I know it's true Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a Throe
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories