Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
“I woke thinking: Is it possible that, after all, I am to go on living with the wild beasts while in the… — Molly Gloss Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
“Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than they are--" (Peter liked the… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
“How was your day?” he asks between kisses. His cold hands slip beneath my shirt and I hiss and draw back, but… — Tammy Falkner Copy Share Image
“If anyone attempted to rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and sword on the plea that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“The term ‘female’ is derogatory not because it emphasises woman’s animality, but because it imprisons her in her sex; and if this… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely that each in… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
“Gerda sends Astrid flying back, then swings to her own board. Astrid soars now like a rider taming a wild beast, bending… — Pam Jenoff Copy Share Image
“The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“They came late to the empty land and looked with bitterness upon the six wolves watching them from the horizon's rim. With… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
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“...I spent the whole morning coiled up in front of the fire, with my hands over it, eating nothing, motionless, just listening… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“At the end of the forest the guardian angel pointed to the village and said: ‘There you will find your mother. She… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks… — Philemon Copy Share Image
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![“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This [Northern conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the…” quote by Robert Lewis Dabney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02d/robert-lewis-dabney-44051_american-politics_it-may-be-inferred-again-that-the-presen_722431.jpg)
