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After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous… — H P Lovecraft
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are… — William Hazlitt
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have… — Carlos Fuentes
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by… — Aldous Huxley
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. — Aldous Huxley
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not… — Douglas MacArthur
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted… — David Mamet
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and… — Michel de Montaigne
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous… — Camille Paglia
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact,… — Dennis Prager
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of… — Jean Rostand
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to… — George Santayana
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and… — Lewis Thomas
The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over. — Felix Dennis
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every… — Thomas Jefferson
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.… — Jeanette Winterson
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though… — Graham Greene
It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by… — George Orwell
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents,… — Benito Mussolini
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and… — Oscar Wilde
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in… — Baroness Orczy

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