"No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready……" — Richard Jefferies
"No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day."
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Richard Jefferies
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40 Quotes by Richard Jefferies
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I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business…
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I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and…
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O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The…
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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always…
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An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the…
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I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.
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Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
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The heart looks into space to be away from earth.
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That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
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I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost…
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Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because…
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Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
— David Attenborough
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the…
— Unknown Author
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
— Immanuel Kant
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such…
— Albert Einstein
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable…
— Martin Luther
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but…
— Susan Sontag
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Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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