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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.


George Santayana


#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.


Ella R. Bloor


#children #class #down #how #matter

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.


Lewis Thomas


#cell #cells #chicken #conditions #different

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.


W. Somerset Maugham


#city #country #darkness #familiar #friendly

Monsters were declared to be warnings against sin, individual or collective, and demonstrations of the anger and the glory of God.


Dudley Wilson


#anger

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.


John le Carre


#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

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.


Graham Greene


#almost #conventional #good #good man #himself

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.


Camille Paglia


#economic #economic policies #failure #fear #gate

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.


Charles Baudelaire


#always #appear #appetite #centuries #even

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.


Katherine Dunn


#also #capacity #contain #crucial #damage






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