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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. -- Saint Augustine
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. -- Saint Augustine
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk. -- Jacqueline du Pre
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. -- C. S. Lewis
As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well. -- Brandon Boyd
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. -- J. Carter Brown
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. -- Robert Byrd
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. -- Therese of Lisieux
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. -- Lucretius
Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. -- Maya Angelou
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot. -- Honore de Balzac
I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot. -- Sigrid Undset
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate. -- Virgil
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. -- Oswald Chambers
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out. -- Aime Cesaire
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend. -- Maxine
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. -- Robert Bridges
The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights. -- Enver Hoxha
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God. -- Martin Luther
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. -- Pam Brown
May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy -- Ted Nugent

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