Best Hydra Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.”

“From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.”

Source: Sweet Venom

“Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.”

Made Real Security International Terror Terrorism Monsters Collectives Cooperation International Terrorism International Cooperation Hydra Collective Security

Author:John Ashcroft

“Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.”

Ifs Looks Philosophy Eye Values Fall Doubt Decided Ultimate Nerves Nothingness Lectures Resumes Ominous Hydra

Author:Ludwig Boltzmann

“Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.”

Has Beens Two Dies Born Grief Hydra

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”

Five Cutting Tree Lays Soldier Strikes Wit Branches Necks Courageous Resolution Customs Combat Deliberation Hydra

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.”

Corruption Investigation Supporter Hydra

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...”

Individual Opinion Dangerous Thousand Invisible Mediocrity Tyrants Public Opinion Intangible Hydra

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.”

Hundred Stalking Infamous Impurity Intemperance Hydra

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.”

Monsters Untouchability Hydra

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”

World Humans Dream Pain Law Father Pay Dying Human Nature Battle Ocean Breaths Response Adam Multitudes Limitless In-laws Hydra Father In Law

Author:David Mitchell

“I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.”

Would Be America Black Boys Murder Prison Eras Borders Height Feds Cracks Pregnancy Teenage Instructors Black Boy Hydra Teenage Pregnancy

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.”

People Thinking Individual Dark Audience Focus Members Organisms Hydra

Author:Emo Philips

“CDU head Angela Merkel has tried for years to serve two sides: the conservative side by holding up her CDU party membership. But then at the same time she acts as though she were also a Social Democrat. I don't have this hydra-headed nature. In the end, people will vote for the Social Democratic original.”

People Years Two Ends Social Sides Party Vote Originals Democratic Democrat Conservative Two Sides Membership Angela Hydra

Author:Martin Schulz

“The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.”

Ifs Writing Long Stills Enough Stories Turns Waiting Cutting One Thing Germany Fascism Altered Guise Doorstep Writing Stories Hydra

Author:Alan Moore

“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.”

Care Economy Issues Security Health Critical Immigration Locals Health Care Illegal National Security Education System Illegal Immigration Criminality Hydra

Author:Allen West

“George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent."”

Thinking Littles Said Filled Rate Bottles Plastic Fury Grapes Lemons Vitamins Hermes Minotaur Hydra Plastic Bottles

Author:Rick Riordan

“The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.”

Three Liberty Equality Serpent Fraternity Hydra

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.”

Ifs Men Reason Seems Together Common Enemy Laughing Virtue Taken Pieces Objects Creatures Hatred Confusion Beast Confused Reasonable Multitudes Confusing Prodigious Monstrosity Hydra

Author:Thomas Browne

“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.”

“No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .”

Men World Believe Doe Whole Religion Youth Devil Stones Philosopher Whole World Vampire Fairy Fountain Mermaid Nymphs Fountain Of Youth Hydra

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”

World Way Want Sea Rocks Ego Engagement Hydra

Book:As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

Source: As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

“There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.”

People Fighting Evil Grows Hours Dark Cutting Goes On Thousand Hundred Roots Murder Abstract Good Times Having A Good Time Herds Chewing Hydra

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.”

Kind Animal Kindness Hydra

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.”

People Mind Firsts War Use Government Winning Loses Willing Flags Shrinks Wraps Shrouds Hydra

Book:The Algebra of Infinite Justice

Source: The Algebra of Infinite Justice