Backbiting Quotes

• ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

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  Frances Wright

  War   Evil   Feelings  

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

  429

• Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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  Voltaire

  Liars   Silly   Men  

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.201, Penguin

  935

• Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

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  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual   Energy   Waste  

  3306

• A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.

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  Miguel de Cervantes

  Years   World   Months  

  4296

• If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

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  Grace Metalious

  Hate   War   Men  

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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