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“The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Ifs Men Mean Would Be Suffering Simple Poor Kindness Destruction Monsters Bread Generosity Buying Avoided Acts Of Kindness Alleviate Wholesale Working Women Simple Acts Of Kindness

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.”

Men World Way Children Ideas Ends Body Lying Suffering Dies Belief Realizing Born Prayer Support Gone Sacrifice Worst Protect Destruction Wit Monsters Frightened

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

People Long States Reality Eye Turns Destruction Monsters Innocence Invites

Author:James A. Baldwin

“As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.”

Said Behinds Destruction Monsters Pitiful

Author:Patrick Ness

“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”

Turns Creation Destruction Transformation Monsters Realism

Author:Anais Nin

“Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the choice is mine. I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon. I am grace. I plunge in the knife. This is my sacrifice-- I am the monster.”

Choices Fire Grace Sacrifice Blood Mines Mouths Angel Destruction Salvation Monsters Demon Silver Knives Slips Veins Choke Plunge Howl Sears

Book:The Dark Divine

Source: The Dark Divine

“The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.”

Looks Night Certain Goal Danger Destruction Silent Missions Monsters Engines Steady Impressive Resolute Impervious

Book:The Amateur Army

Source: The Amateur Army

“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”

Ifs Love Feels Ends Desire Religion Order Passion Destruction Aim Noble Monsters Height Torture Folly Madmen Asceticism Zealot

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings