Ferocity Quotes
48 quotes by 43 authors
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These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
— Diablo Cody
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
— Baron d'Holbach
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Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
— Frank Herbert
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Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if…
— J. G. Farrell
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It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I…
— Fred F. Fielding
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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder,…
— C L R James
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The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.
— Andrew Harvey
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always…
— Christina Stead
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From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from…
— David Hume
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips…
— H.G. Wells
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Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can…
— Oswald Mosley
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— George Cheyne
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There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity…
— M. L. Stedman
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and…
— Emile M. Cioran
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
— Virginia Woolf
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I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of…
— Ibn Khaldun
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