Devouring Quotes

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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island… — Ayn Rand
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think… — Remy de Gourmont
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices… — Michael Parenti
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is… — Guillaume Faye
Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and… — Oswald Spengler
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We… — Ken Kesey
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest… — Aleister Crowley
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [NoÃ«l] France was the last bookseller who provided… — Jules de Goncourt
Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing… — Deroy Murdock
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes,… — Eric Hoffer
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to… — Thomas Hodgskin
Then love-devouring Death do what he dare. — William Shakespeare
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income.… — Marc Reisner
Weâ€™re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so weâ€™re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and weâ€™re doing all… — Morgan Freeman

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