William A. Dembski Quotes

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

I am uncomfortable judging people, as we - members of the film fraternity - are judged more than anybody else.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.