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«The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.»
Author: Wilhelm Reich
(Psychologist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
bubonic, bubonic plague, extraordinarily, Ideologies, plague, political ideology, realities, regarded, social reality, tangible, vitally
«One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague»
«Please your eye and plague your heart»
Author: William Cobbett
| Keywords:
plague
«Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.»
«Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.»
«PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admonition, Ancient times, fortuitous, immune, instance, objectionableness, plague, purposeless, the plague
«The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fortuitous, manifestation, objectionableness, plague, purposeless, the plague
«That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
abolished, abolishes, abolishing, backbone, band, banded, banding, despise, formation, formations, marching, needed, plague, plague spot, Plague The, plaguing, speed, spot, strained, straining, strains
«Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, listening, plague, Plague The, plaguing, satiate, satiated, sermons, soon, tender, tenders, The Faculty, wearies, weariest, weary, wearying
«The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
instruments, plague, Plague The, plaguing, vices
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