Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapes exceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.
Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.
Anytime something becomes widely condemned and taboo, it will be eroticized.
If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends. . . But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel so much better to think about it. Sometimes it eases the terror, the sense that I am condemned eternally to this hell.
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
Apart from the cross, condemnation is normal. Without Jesus, we all deserve to be condemned and punished for sin. But here's the good news: 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus'.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
