Best Travesty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Religion of the Future

“If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.”

“Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.”

Christian Morality Ethics Evangelical Travesty Christian Ethics

“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!”

Doe Form Black White Sky Photography Ordinary Relation Blue Mess Tone Colour Yellow Plates Lenses Sunflower Travesty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.”

Years Suffering Sin Results Land Tears Fundamentals Dollars Woods Commit Soil Fertilizer Travesty

Author:George Washington Carver

“The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Animal Moral Abuse Slavery Physical Abuse Travesty

Author:Alan Keyes

“I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.”

Long Said Country Done Hands Reality Hours Saws Prove Clock Pushing Session Legislature Statutes Travesty Pushing On Prove Me Wrong

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.”

Age Humanity Universe Justice Stage Theory Injustice Immortality Providence Thrones Verdict Travesty Rectification

Author:Randolph Sinks Foster

“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”

Literature Interest Principles Influence Letters Slavery Profession Curse Southern Honorable Clinging Libel Christendom Republicanism Travesty

Book:Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery

Source: Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery

“A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.”

World Humans Home Travel Hotel Vulgar Commonplace Travesty

Book:A House in Bloomsbury

Source: A House in Bloomsbury

“It's a travesty for the games. It's cutting into the heart of this community.”

Heart Games Community Cutting Travesty

Author:Mike Dunlap

“When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I saw out of these guys who were in their 50s and 60s, who had defined and in many ways laid the foundation for the NFL being what it is today.”

Way Kind Today Guy Saws Fame Foundation Defined Nfl Halls Hall Of Fame Carnage Travesty

Author:Howie Long

“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.”

“Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”

Character Government Law Desire Justice Institutions Meetings Stupidity Revenge Resentment Breeding Lawlessness Travesty Laws And Government

Author:Mary B. Harris

“It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.”

Religion Superiors Inferiors True Religion Travesty

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.”

World States Enjoy Development Citizens Ordinary Notes Western Discussion Crucial Elites Western World Immunity Ordinary Citizens Travesty

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Two Nations Numbers Cases Rights Movement Gay Deserve Absolutes Shame Pro Life Basic Rights Travesty

Author:Jon Stewart

“Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.”

Art Made Christian Culture Higher Ten Criticism Hollywood Commandments Epic Clash Pagan Ten Commandments Hollywood Movies Infatuated Ideologues Travesty Best American Ben Hur

Author:Camille Paglia

“If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Kind Dream Would Be Care Opinion Sick Health Care I Had A Dream Travesty

Author:Eve Ensler

“We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.”

Ifs Men Looks Littles Important Gone Important Things Bother Behalf Bothered Suffragettes Travesty

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.”

Thinking Men Want Shows Happens Deals Situation Streets Shadow Concern Allowing Homeless Travesty

Author:Barack Obama

“Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.”

Trying Yeah Jail Contempt Rotten Travesty

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.”

Persons Justice Corporations Travesty

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.”

Compare Watergate Travesty

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”

People Thinking Next Brain Doors Ghastly Travesty

Author:Gail Carriger

“In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.”

Men Years Ideas Reason Lasts Imagine No Idea Harvard Oxford Travesty

Book:The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.”

Ifs Men Wells Character Today Gone Bed Deny Tragic Discipleship Travesty Today Is The Day Meatloaf

Book:Old School

Source: Old School

“It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.”

“We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.”

World Should Happens Fighting Nations Laughing Hell Election Injustice March Divided Disgusting Travesty March On Washington

Author:Donald Trump

“Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.”

Wells Moments Facts Energy My Own Environment Accounts Climate Change Global Warming Articles Travesty Causes Of Global Warming

Author:Kevin E. Trenberth

“Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.”

Process Rich Design Consumers Frightening Interiors Helplessness Interior Design Condemnation Formidable Credulity Gullibility Travesty

Book:Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

Source: Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things

“Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.”

Way Running America Political Truth Is Chill Up And Down Spine Political Systems Travesty American Political System

Author:William J. Clinton

“But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.”

Ifs Want Feels Made Feelings Happens Would Be Able Clear Too Much Player Color Built University Coaches Ridiculous Feel Good Shirts Ads Florida Much Love Travesty

Author:Urban Meyer

“The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.”

World Should Enough Produce Hunger Population Hungry Travesty

Author:Donny Osmond

“That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.”

Has Beens Ready Concentrating Travesty

Author:Kasey Keller

“To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.”

Ifs Men Way Want Believe Humans May Character Use Certain Method Terror Convince Believe In God Congregation Expediency Character Of God Travesty

Author:Oswald Chambers

“It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...”

People Cases Rights Gay Deserve Basic Rights Travesty

Author:Jon Stewart

“I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.”

Feels Children Travesty

Author:Joe Rogan

“Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.”

Earth Poor Grief Evidence Foolish Curse Expenses Funeral Display Unnecessary Vulgar Pompous Ostentation Travesty

Book:Except the Lord

Source: Except the Lord

“The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?”

People Thinking Trying I Can Ideas Fun Pieces Written Come Up Focused Collaborating Travesty

Author:Alex Chilton

“C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.”

Enough Computer Complicated Excess Screws Screw Ups Travesty

Author:Tom Christiansen

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