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Horrid Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties…
- Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were…
- The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing…
More Horrid Quotes
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? — Thomas Carlyle
- Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would… — Charles Darwin
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine
- I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes… — Thomas Schelling
- One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville
- I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the… — Bipasha Basu
- I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass
- I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I… — Rosamond Lehmann
- No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It… — Daniel O'Connell
- In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy… — Scott Sigler
- I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled… — Nevil Shute
- I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking… — Christopher Buckley