“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.” PeopleMenWantShouldWritingStillsBookSelfReasonWholeDreamHateTurnsAnimalEmotionHorrorDrugDestructionMadCurseNervesPaleApostlesHate MeSelf DestructionSelf Destruct Author:Leonid Andreyev
“Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?” MenChristianAsksAnimalChristianityBloodHonestHorrorAsk MeBeastSubstitutesSensibleHonest ManSects Author:Voltaire
“The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.” MenFeelsMomentsHelpingTogetherOpportunitySpeakAnimalExistenceResponsibilityTroubleHorrorEthicsMiseryReverencePromptsReverence For LifeRecompense Author:Albert Schweitzer
“It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.” MenFactsBodySeemsEyeAnimalImpossibleJudgingHorrorExtremesBoundariesAttractiveSeductive Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939 Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939