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«People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
anyway, church, minutes, misery, reasons, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, tavern, Taverns
«We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.»
«Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which the»
«Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.»
«The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Church,
Religion,
Superstition
| Keywords:
befog, churches, clergy, encouraged, monuments, processions, so-called, stupefaction, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, The Masses, The So
«To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser»
«One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
stare, stiff, stud, studded, studs, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, thrust, thrust out
«Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!»
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