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“But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.”

Heart Lying My Heart Roots Worms Great Work

Author:Edvard Munch

“The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.”

Art Lying Artist Art Is Roots Sincerity Insincerity

Author:Quentin Bell

“We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.”

Knows Pain Remember Lying Born Birth Red Roots Rose Flesh Flare

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

Humans Reason Lying Social Behavior Elements Ethics Capacity Roots Response Patterns Accepted Ancestor Mammals

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.”

Problem Lying House Lord Class Economic Roots Class System House Of Lords

Author:Tony Benn

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.”

People Way Enough Moments Hands Lying Money Roots Fishes Soil Shakes Chickens Baskets Hacked Beets

Book:Tales of Neveryeon

Source: Tales of Neveryeon

“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”

World Mind Humans Reason Lying Evil Dark Virtue Ignorance Roots Blind Misery Errors Guides Human Mind Trembling Felicity Bane Human Happiness Human Reason Poisoners

Author:Frances Wright

“I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.”

Running Lying Power Rain Roots Plant Various Hills Sunshine Dew Brooks Babbling

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.”

Looks Lying Lord Hero Roots Grass Carrie Shoguns

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”

Mean Country Seems Lying Roots Folks Selfish Traditional Grass Meat Hopeless Expenses Doomed

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.”

Mind Lying Social Women Roots Manners Assumption Superiority

Author:Humphry Davy

“The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.”

Writing Lying Desire Fiction Roots Fiction Writing

Author:Lucy Poate Stebbins