When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Interpretation
The quote criticizes hypocrisy in religious practices and moral behavior.
Frank Sinatra's quote highlights the contradictions in how people often engage in immoral behaviors while seeking forgiveness from a higher power. This reflects a deep skepticism about the honesty of moral values professed by individuals and institutions, suggesting that superficial piety cannot mask true character or intentions, especially when it comes from those who claim to uphold certain ethical standards yet engage in debauchery.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of authenticity in personal beliefs and actions.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.
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