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«[It's] a kind of vast municipal fire station a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend.»
Author: Prince Charles
| Keywords:
carbuncle, carbuncles, fire station, monstrous, municipal, station
«Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies? utopian images? can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Communism,
Perfection,
Utopia
| Keywords:
conform, conform to, forcefully, images, monstrous, societal, twentieth, twentieth century, unhappiness, Utopian, Utopians
«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 be possible.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, deny, monstrous, pronounce, pronouncing, welcome
«A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.»
«Composed that monstrous animal a husband and wife.»
«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 using it»
Author: Jean Rostand
(Biologist, Historian)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
endow, monstrous, using, well endowed, worthy
«And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
curses, mania, monstrous, penitence, remorse, unfitness, unworthiness, vanities
«All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
hearts, Hearts of, humanities, humanity, inscribe, In Humanity, in order, masked, masking, masks, monstrous, order, terrifies, terrify, terrifying, themselves, wear, wear on
«For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum»
«I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.»
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