“ St. Patrick… one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. ”
- Charles M. Madigan- Copy
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“ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
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“ There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic. ”
- David Lehman- Copy
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“ I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own. ”
- Eliza M. Hickok- Copy
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“ In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor… ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian. ”
- George A. Dorsey- Copy
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“ Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of "the sheltered life… ”
- Sir Edmund Gosse- Copy
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“ There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself, it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it, we are at once enslaved by him. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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