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“If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.”

“Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.”

Humans Spirit Rich Lows Garden Hollywood Towns Human Spirit Insulting Hideous Dump

Book:Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.”

“Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.”

World Character Beautiful Kindness Color Window Sight Practicals Woven Hideous Cathedrals

Author:James Leonard Gordon

“Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!”

Men Humans Dream Spiritual Subjects Wall Understood Aspect Treats Infinite Contemplation Encounters Infinity Echoes Sublime Hideous Mosques Synagogue

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!”

World Behinds Pride Despair Mouths Fruit Absurd Breasts Immense Good Sense Hideous Reservoirs Unfathomable

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.”

Mean Persons Solve Destination Hideous Stature

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us”

People Trying Firsts Hate Enemy Support Issues Mass Concerned Monsters Horrible Revolutionary Hideous Contributing Support You

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.”

Children School Talking Worst Example Caught British Tongue Indian Needles Hideous Columbia Ordeals Sewing British Columbia

Author:Ward Churchill

“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”

May Fall Behinds Focus Failing Rocks Objects Creatures Accomplish Hardest Persistence Over It Strongest Passages Bores Hideous Concentrating Living Creatures Hasty

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.”

People Needs Stills Enough Problem Government Running Cities Car Particular Train Unions Expensive Australia Justify Destination Bus Vehicle Purses Drains Transport Hideous

Author:Tony Abbott

“Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things”

Men Reason Animal Clothes Superiority Hideous Nudists

Book:TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES (Illustrated): Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible

Source: TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES (Illustrated): Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible

“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?”

Objects Ultimate Hideous Visceral Ultimate Truth

Author:Max Perutz

“Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.”

World Believe Stills States Government United Principles United States Color Skins Wide Protection Oppression Flags Persecution Hateful Hideous Chasms

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.”

Has Beens Done Names Cruelty Hideous Love And Freedom

Book:Star of the Sea

Source: Star of the Sea

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”

Source: Torture Garden

“Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.”

Eye Pain Law Spirit Justice Deals Blind Rebel Penalties Veins Neighbour Hideous Halt Uprising

Author:Ada Cambridge

“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton

“Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.”

Giving Firsts First Time Ears Notion Violin Hideous Stink Tchaikovsky

Author:Eduard Hanslick

“The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)”