Quotes with goddess-creature

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  • Anita Brookner A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Lee Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Freda Adler That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • John Stuart Mill A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Charles Dickens A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carol P. Christ After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Martin Luther An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Beeban Kidron Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Voltaire Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Mann Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Cowley Fill all the glasses there, for why
    Should every creature drink but I?
    Why, man of morals, tell me why?
    From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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