Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”

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202. “Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.”

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203. “The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.”

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204. “Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.”

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205. “It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”

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206. “If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”

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207. “A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”

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208. “Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.”

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209. “There’s a certain deeper sort of beauty in the bleak. I see it that bleak is beautiful in part because it is too deathly and grim to fathom itself so.”

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210. “In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word ‘religious’ with ‘spiritual’ to make their faiths seem less extreme.”

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211. “Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don’t blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.”

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212. “You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”

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213. “A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.”

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214. “Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”

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215. “False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.”

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216. “The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.”

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217. “Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.”

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218. “In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.”

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219. “It’s simple, it’s not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.”

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220. “The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.”

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221. “A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.”

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222. “A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.”

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223. “Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”

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224. “It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.”

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225. “Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.”

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226. “Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.”

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227. “The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It’s as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.”

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228. “The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”

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229. “The truth exposes some people so deeply, their last defense is to front a carefree insanity.”

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230. “There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.”

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231. “God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.”

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232. “Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again.”

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233. “Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.”

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234. “Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.”

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235. “With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.”

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236. “The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.”

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237. “When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.”

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238. “History fancies itself linear – but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

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239. “Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever.”

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240. “Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.’”

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241. “With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.”

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242. “I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.”

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243. “Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I’ll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that’s what I call pure, honest fun.”

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244. “If you’re capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.”

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245. “Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.”

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246. “Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.”

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247. “I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.”

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248. “A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”

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249. “We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.”

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250. “A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”

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