Jack The Ripper Quotes

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Men

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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• No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

  A. A. Milne

  Law, Evil, Doubt

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

  Hillel Neuer

  Rights, Body, Shelter

  "UN accuses Sudan's president of genocide; then mulls naming him to Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2012.

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• It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

  Gregory Maguire

  Monsters, World, Birth

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Girl, Mother, Dinner

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  Florence Welch

  Feelings, London, Eras

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• It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

  Maureen Johnson

  News, Greetings, Committees

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.25, Penguin

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• What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Drinking, Ideas, Leader

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Married, Knows, Entitled

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• Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Philosophy, Males

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Grandma, Sharks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

  Simon Heffer

  America, Giving, Ira

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• Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.

  Rachel Caine

  Cousin, Screw You, Expecting

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• With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for history’s most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement.

  Matthew Pearl

  Appreciation, Strong, Character

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• Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

  Maureen Johnson

  Gone

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.14, Penguin

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• As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

  Janet Evanovich

  Swear To God, Two, Long

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2014

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• One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!

  Andrea Phillips

  Halloween, Numbers, Laughing

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