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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, Death Penalty, Moral, Human

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, Evil, Society, Perfection, Fact

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

Women, Men, Older Women, Older Men, Get

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous! John C. Calhoun

Power, War, True, Be True, Dangerous

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, Want, Tyranny, Slave

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, Individual, Human, Own

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, Parents, Childhood

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, Behind, Going

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

Morals, Opinions, Say, Find, Lust, Will

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, Cold, Blood, Personal, Absurd

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another. William Godwin

Nature, Sympathy, Enough, Sin, Seeing

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, Ignore, Living, Wrong, Ready

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, Only, Almost

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. Mark Lester

Child, Think, Ever, Allowed

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

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, Danger

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. Isadora Duncan

Me, Believe, America, Jazz, Savage

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. Camille Paglia

Success, Failure, Fear, Prove, Gate, Out

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people. Emil Ferris

Myself, Yourself, People, You, Feel

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, Law, Black

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside. Stacy London

Style, Fashion, Think, Feeling, Inside

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, Darkness, City, Lights, Night

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous. Chris Evans

I Am, Basketball, Think, Kind, Party, Am

Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization. Marine Le Pen

War, Civilization, Nation, Reason, Our

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, Yourself, I Am, Help, Better

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