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“When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.”

Men Hands Certain Dies White Moral Duty Goodness Train Clean Terror Panic Buttons Irrational Moral Duty Moral Goodness

Book:Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!”

Ifs Death Dies Loses Terror Life Death

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.”

Men Together Dies Liberty Produce Fine Genius Speech Terror Excellent Barriers Freedom Of Speech Traitor Oppressors

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.”

Firsts Mean Long War Running Dies Sides Security Danger Balance Offers Claims Terror Strikes Delusion Cynical Long Runs Minimum Absurdity Both Sides Armament

Author:Christa Wolf

“If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.”

Ifs World Years Dies Balls Response Population Terror Rising Australia Curls

Book:Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection

Source: Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection

“Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.”

Ifs Children Dies Ignorance Terror Folly Caretakers

Author:Mason Cooley