Meddling Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meddling Monsters People Perfect Religion Spiritual World
...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum. — Justin Prentice Copy Share Image
But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them? — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians. — Star Parker Copy Share Image
The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
“Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop,… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image