Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
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He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
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Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
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The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
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