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Letter "M" » murderous
«Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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favors, Human history, murderous, natural history, natural selection, operated, selection, selections
«A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
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comradeship, indiscriminately, murderous, self-sacrifice
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country»
«The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.»
«To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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absorb, black light, circle around, dispossess, dispossessed, dispossessing, drag, isolate, murderous, trace, wipe, wipe out
«You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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foreign, genuinely, hate, heroism, impulses, kill, murderous, must not, nation, neighbor, neighboring, patriotic, perhaps, propaganda, transfer, transferred, transferring, transfers
«We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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comparison, handful, lukewarm, machinery, misguide, misguided, murderous, severe, subservient
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