Bravo Quote by Emma Goldman Download Open image “The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.” — Emma Goldman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bravo Consumer culture Contortions Contortions Greater Culture Delight Greater Greater Delight Hideous Hideous Mental Joy Mass Mass culture Mass media Masses Mental Contortions Psychology Stupidity
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“A great inferiority of beauty gives pain to a person conversant in the highest excellence of the kind, and is for that reason pronounced… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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