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«A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.»

Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: Courbet, crucifixion, crucifixions, Gustave Courbet, portrait, Rubens

«The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.»

Author: Mary McCarthy | Keywords: criminality, crucifixion, crucifixions, notwithstanding, outstanding, pause, the other way around

«BEN: You lucky, lucky bastard. BRIAN: What? BEN: Proper little jailer's pet, aren't we? BRIAN: What do you mean? BEN: You must have slipped him a few shekels, eh? BRIAN: Slipped him a few shekels? You saw him spit in my face! BEN: Ohh! What wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face. BRIAN: Well, it's not exactly friendly, is it? They had me in manacles! BEN: Manacles! Ooh oooh oh oh. My idea of heaven is to be allowed to be put in manacles... just for a few hours. They must think the sun shines out o' your arse, sonny. BRIAN: Oh, lay off me. I've had a hard time! BEN: You've had a hard time?! I've been here five years! They only hung me the right way up yesterday! So, don't you come 'rou-- BRIAN: All right. All right. BEN: They must think you're Lord God Almighty. BRIAN: What will they do to me? BEN: Oh, you'll probably get away with crucifixion. BRIAN: Crucifixion?! BEN: Yeah, first offence. BRIAN: Get away with crucifixion?! It's-- BEN: Best thing the Romans ever did for us. BRIAN: What?! BEN: Oh, yeah. If we didn't have crucifixion, this country would be in a right bloody mess. BRIAN: Guards! BEN: Nail him up, I say!»

Author: Monty Python | Keywords: all right, Almighty, arse, bastard, ben, bloody, Brian, crucifixion, crucifixions, friendly, get away, God Almighty, guards, hard time, hung, jailer, lay off, mess, nail, offence, off guard, Oh Yeah, PET, proper time, put in, Romans, shekels, shines, slipped, slip away, slip off, sonny, spat, spit, the right way, the Romans, yeah

«Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.»

Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | Keywords: christ, commit, crucifixion, crucifixions, envy

«Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: animal, behold, Behold the Man, best, bullfight, crucifixion, crucifixions, crueler, cruelest, earth, far, felt, furthest, Good Feeling, has, heaven, Heaven on Earth, hell, hell on earth, His, invented, man, on earth, so far, The Best Man, tragedies, very, Was

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