13 Banished Quotes for You to Enjoy

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch

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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. Joseph Story

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? Jose Rizal

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I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world. George McGovern

Hope Health World Will Nutrition States Hunger Able Someday Been Banished Proclaim Whole United United States Bring

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends. Gordon Brown

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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. Henry Campbell-Bannerman

War You Earth Indeed Give Insistent Shape Since New Began Banished Done May Substance Century Much Growing Desire

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. Jim Bunning

Life You Will Pay Must Entire Price Message Caught Ultimate Get Send Banished Again Use Illegal Season Playing

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles. John Podhoretz

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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. John Shelby Spong

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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. Margaret Cavendish

Friendship Poverty Country Lost Duty Despised Though Weaken Out Neither Hath Could Make Him Lord Been His Nor Pinching Banished Estate Break Loyal Necessity Bonds

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. Mehdi Hasan

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