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«In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
detestable, dissension, diversity, does not exist, fascism, fascist, Fascists, fertile, forbids, Grain of salt, immaculate, impurities, impurity, mustard, salt, The wheel, wheel
«It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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communicate, detestable, extent, gauge, gauged, gauging, grievance, grievances, permits, reflect, smash, smashed, smashing, The Weight, unbearable
«At this day, the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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bosom, deity, deposited, deposits, detestable, employ, monster, name of God, suppressing, sustains
«And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.»
«As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.»
«But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.»
«And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.»
«Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
canonize, canonized, delightful, detestable, edition, editions, formerly, Great Books, vulgarize, vulgarized
«It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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conceive, conceive of, detestable, Hebrew, utterly
«Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Government,
Religion
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Calvin, copied, detestable, erecting, existed, modeled, Old Testament, succeeded, testament, theocracy
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