“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.” MenMadeYoungPrayerMeetingsYoung ManNecksKnivesFifteenScandalKneelingPrayer Meeting Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.” MadeUsedBehindsSpeechBeatsScandalAbsentFacetious Author:Jean de La Fontaine
“Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.” MadeSeemsWineMealsScandalPopcorn Author:Lena Dunham
“Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.” ShouldMeanDoeMadeStatesPressesAvailableJournalismJournalistDocumentsScandalFreedom Of The PressInvestigative Journalism Author:Otto Schily
“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.” PersonsMadeSeemsSpiritualLawUniverseClassModernObjectsCollegeExpressionLetting GoWorshipPerformancesStructureMereInstanceAbstractDivinityAddressesGraduatesFrankIdealismCultScandalDeitiesTranscendentalSuperhumanGraduating Class Author:William James