Whips Quotes - Page 14

• God is not at a loss when He moves to bring us back to Himself. He can woo or whip. He can draw or drive. He can work rapidly or slowly, as He pleases. In other words, He is free to be God! And in His own way, at His own pace, He brings us back.

  Tom Wells

  Moving, Loss, Pace

  Tom Wells (1987). “Christian: Take Heart!: Truth about the Christian Life and Its Progress”, Banner of Truth

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• Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they - the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate - are themselves the government.

  Robert Higgs

  Night, Government, Rights

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• The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

  A.C. Grayling

  Media, Order, Anxiety

  A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.

  Hubert Harrison

  Religious, Water, Sorrow

  Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press

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• Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

  George B. McClellan

  War, Home, Paper

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• Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Patriotic, Order

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• The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Devil, Sound, Hell

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.165, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

  John Webster

  Lust, Girdles, Carrie

  1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.

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• The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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• Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Attitude, Philosophy

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless...

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Past, Men, Thinking

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.488, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.

  J. E. B. Stuart

  Believe, Enemy, Battle

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