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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. Dennis Prager

People, Society, Evil, Perfection, Fact

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

War, Politics, Human, Own, Fact, Most

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? Blase J. Cupich

Life, Death, Moral, Dignity, Guilty

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. Douglas MacArthur

Home, Power, Evil, Always, Up, Going

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. Graham Greene

Good, Man, World, Good Man, Something

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. George Santayana

Welcome, Living, Ignore, Ready, Possible

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. Lewis Thomas

Opportunity, Self, Self-Respect, Chicken

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. John le Carre

Experience, Wise, Childhood, Parents

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. Eileen Myles

Women, Men, Older Women, Older, Lovable

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over. Felix Dennis

Age, Celebrity, Over, Editors, Staffing

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. David Mamet

Black And White, People, Government, Law

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. Noam Chomsky

Slavery, Look, You, Tyranny, Want, Slave

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Lord Acton

Men, Find, Error, Defenders, Among

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. Carlos Fuentes

Prison, Human, Human Rights, Rights, Abu

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. Michel de Montaigne

Opinions, Find, Lust, Will, Say, More

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Jean Rostand

Power, Great, Humanity, Minds, Enough

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley

War, Men, Personal, Blood, Cold, Absurd

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. W. Somerset Maugham

Time, City, Darkness, Night, Country

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. Omar N. Bradley

Man, World, Humanity, Moral, Trapped

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff. Marina Abramovic

Technology, I Am, Yourself, Think, Help

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Eugene Field

Ideas, Thought, Birth, Human, Swinging

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Satisfaction, Always, Us, Found

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. Grandmaster Flash

Music, Song, Brand, Play, Worth, New

My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron. Xavier Dolan

Children, Energy, Looking, Run, Manager

I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. Randy Quaid

I Am, Me, Control, Trying, Believe, Ring

We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't quite explain why we ever believed the outrageous thing in the first place. Kevin Young

Fake, Place, Why, First, Erase, Witch

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