“My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenI CanPainThreeLostWishPaintingMessagesSeriesHorribleRevolutionaryFulfilledHorrible Life Author:Frida Kahlo
“The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!” KindChildrenBookSchoolOrderWishJusticeAtheismSourceAuthorityConstitutionOur ChildrenFilledPositive AtheismHorribleGentlePassagesUnjust Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.” IfsPersonsHas BeensImportantAgeTurnsWishDiscoveryRelationMethodHorribleAwakeTortureExistentialStrictIntermission Author:W. H. Auden
“I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.” IfsWishColdMurderNewspapersHorribleCold Blooded Book:The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868 Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868
“My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.” WishStepsDarknessWrittenDangerParticularAuthorityHistoricalHorribleCrueltyBigotryRestorationDespotismJesuitPerfidy Author:John Adams