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“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.”

Way Democracy Produce Materials Destruction Fiery Desolation Volcanoes Eruption Volcanic Eruptions

Book:Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends

Source: Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends

“We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.”

Culture Victory Destruction Ancient Socialism Awful Triumph Rome Propositions Imperialism Cemetery Desolation Ancient Rome Degeneration Depopulation

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people to prepare for the troubles and desolations which are about to be poured out upon the world without measure. For the moment we live in a day of peace and prosperity but it shall not ever be thus. Great trials lie ahead. All of the sorrows and perils of the past are but a foretaste of what is yet to be. And we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually.”

People World Moments Past Lying Voice Church Lord Trouble Sorrow Calling Raises Prosperity Trials This Day Warning Peril Desolation Preparedness

Author:Bruce R. McConkie

“The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.”

People Ifs Feels Wells Persons War States South Civil War Routes Pardon Georgia Carolina Desolation Severity South Carolina

Book:Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

Source: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

“You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.”

World Jesus Rocks Rose Storm Rising Midst Wilderness Rise Above Desolation Blooming

Book:The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne

Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne

“The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.”

Should Might Jesus Christ Crosses All Alone Desolation

Author:C. J. Mahaney

“Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.”

Age Spirit Despair Disease Plant Ancient Remedy Catastrophe Drought Desolation Supplication

Author:Norman Borlaug

“The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.”

Trying Humans Has Beens Spirit Humanity Resources Accomplish Human Spirit Exhaustion Desolation Disintegration Uneasiness

Book:The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

“A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.”

I Can Given Walks Journey Week Rocks Strange Walking Mass Rounds Wave Wander Islands Hiking Wet Fog Exile Surfing Trekking Strolling Surf Sweeping Sauntering Desolation Tumult

Book:The Aran Islands and Connemara

Source: The Aran Islands and Connemara

“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.”

Beautiful Music Heard Bread Broke Without You Desolation Desolate

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.”

Thinking Heart Soul Poor Creatures Mass Currents Heavy Invisible Fearful Load Infidelity Blindness Desolation Infidel

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.”

Love Should Wells Feelings Lovers Arise Conquer Admiration Making Love Desolation Admiring Misused Satiation

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith”

World Matter Light Faith Shadow Insight Desolation Inner World Piercings Outer Worlds Light And Shadow

Author:J. B. Priestley

“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.”

Years Firsts War Shows Seems Greater Four Terrible Photograph Scary Islands Damage Bombs Four Years Frightening Testing Eden Pacific Atomic Bomb Desolation Atomic War

Author:Wilfred Burchett

“Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe”

People World Pain Violence Safe Hunger Nurture Fanaticism No Hope Desolation

Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“They make a desolation and call it peace.”

Farewell Desolation

Book:The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

Source: The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

“Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.”

People Should Helping Names Causes Wonderful Trouble Dog Mines Strange Difficulty Salvation Work Out Math Sufficient Damage Onions Desolation

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.”

Looks Stills Eye Faces Rooms Hunger Disappear Replaced Desolation Smiling Faces Still Smiling

Author:Stephen Fry

“Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being”

Ifs Men Trying May Loss Sorrow Elements Rage Climbing Indifferent Doomed Hostility Futility Desolation

Author:Jim Perrin

“Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.”

Light Darkness Preparation Endurance Files Desolation

Book:The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church

Source: The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church

“I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.”

May Feelings Left Bits Dark Entertainment Delusion Initials Desolation

Author:Arthur Erickson

“The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.”

World Long Soul Form Night Order Social Water Behinds Trouble Ought Birth Flow Chaos Contemporary Pregnant Frightening Widows Heirs Desolation Social Order Departing Long Nights

Author:Alexander Herzen

“To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.”

Men World Trying Firsts Long Soul Hands Seems Pain Jobs Faces Strong Water Boys Drug Skins Flesh Your Soul Your Face Knocking Exhilarating Desolation

Book:Disenchantment

Source: Disenchantment

“As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.”

Choices Unhappy Desolation Your Freedom

Author:Milan Kundera

“Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?”

Children Mother Lost Poor Deprivation Desolation Poor Children

Book:Except the Lord

Source: Except the Lord

“I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.”

Years War Earth Silent Witness Multitudes Through The Years Desolation

Author:George V

“The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.”

Art Shows Media Ready Entertainment Tonight Desolation Carnivals Getting Dressed Samaritans

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.”

Games Left Sound Sweeping Nursery Desolation Ambulance

Author:Bob Dylan

“Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.”

Religion Religious Angel Pouring Desolation Teapots

Author:Patti Smith

“Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.”

Home Dream Towns Obvious Motherhood Despite Damage Apples Visible American Dream Pie Icons Desolation Coca Cola Apple Pie Home Town Pantheon

Author:James Howard Kunstler

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