Mopping Up Quotes

• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Imagination, Victory, Fans

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

  Aberjhani

  Pain, Night, Blood

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Blood, Charity

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Religious, Views

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