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.
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.
Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
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