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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

— Aristotle

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

— Mary Daly

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

— Gilbert Parker

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

— Abu Bakr

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

— Arlen Specter

Faith is never identical with piety.

— Karl Barth

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

— Aristotle

Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

— Don McLean

✗Opposing Perspectives

Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.

— Al Roker