Terror Quotes - Page 32

• Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Justice, Police

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mercy Of God, Joy, Heaven

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

  Federico Fellini

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Laughter

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• Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

  Ouida

  Christian, Gay, Religion

  "Views and Opinions".

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• When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are.

  Ken Wilber

  Girl, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.

  T. B. Joshua

  Envy, Despair, Wicked

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• Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Revolution, Tomorrow, Raises

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• Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

  John Medina

  Children, Joy, Transition

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five”, p.9, Pear Press

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• The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.

  Cate Blanchett

  Girl, Song, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

  Derek Jacobi

  Jobs, Relax, Lasts

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• Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Cells, People, Scare

  "Rosie Makes up Facts and Smears Volunteer Soldiers". "The View" with Roseann O'Donnell, newsbusters.org. May 1, 2007.

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Unions

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Vices, Reform

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

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• I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Airplane, Elephants

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• Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at realizing there was no longer an imaginary friend; relief that no one was looking over their shoulder any more. Several described the experience as similar to that of a child learning to go to sleep without a favorite teddy bear. Others described it as simply growing up or outgrowing the need for the imaginary friends of childhood.

  Darrel Ray

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Humble, Garden

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Leader, Brutality

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• Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Summer, Spring, Deportation

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• Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

  Deidre Hall

  Government, Years, Eyebrows

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• Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, White, Together

  Ezra Pound, Michael John King (1982). “Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.226, New Directions Publishing

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• No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Iraq, People, World

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• American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

  Howard Berman

  Israel, Support, Unequivocal

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don't give freedom of religion.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Rights, Israel

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• September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  New York, Writing, Sky

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