Best Monstrous Sayings
232 Monstrous quotes by 185 unique authors
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We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for…
— Donna J. Haraway
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The invasion of Lebanon by Israel .. is a monstrous injustice. I side with the resistance to that injustice. Hizbollah is leading that resistance. I…
— George Galloway
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The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are…
— Philip Gourevitch
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The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
— Charlotte Mason
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No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its…
— Octave Mirbeau
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I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.
— Elizabeth Hurley
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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
— Slavoj Žižek
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An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
— Thomas Overbury
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular…
— Gerald Durrell
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
— Ernest Becker
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That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
— Eric Hoffer
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Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to…
— R. A. Lafferty
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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
— Oscar Wilde
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God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.
— Tony Evans
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A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is…
— Paul Rusesabagina
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Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous…
— Isaac Bonewits
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Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the…
— Peter J. Carroll
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Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence,…
— Barney Rosset
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The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is…
— Alice Miller
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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
— Ella Reeve Bloor
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The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the…
— J. Edgar Hoover
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Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things,…
— Friedrich Wohler
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