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232 Monstrous quotes by 185 unique authors

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that… — John Stuart Mill
Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath… — Hermann Buhl
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and what… — Neil Gaiman
I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church… — Leonard Ravenhill
I'll speak in a monstrous little voice. — William Shakespeare
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place… — Joseph Conrad
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they… — Emile Zola
You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their… — Sarah Ferguson
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil… — John Steinbeck
No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally… — Sylvie Guillem
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to… — Verghese Kurien
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but… — Rebecca West
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror. — Rebecca Harding Davis
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of… — Leszek Kolakowski
And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against… — Orson Scott Card
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I… — Cornel West
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law… — Learned Hand
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is… — George Bernard Shaw
It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper… — Charles Dickens
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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