Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow ...up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the unive...rse would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeropl...anes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name... of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are all of us made by war, twisted and warped by war, but we seem to forget it. A war does not end with the Armistice. In 1919,... all over a Europe filled with graves, hung miasmas and miseries, and over the whole world too, because of the flu and its nearly thirty million deaths. I used to joke that it was the war that had give birth to me, as a defence when weary with the talk about the war that went on--and on--and on. But it was no joke. I used to feel there was something like a dark grey cloud, like poison gas, over my early childhood. Later I found people who had the same experience. Perhaps it was from that war that I first felt the struggling panicky need to escape, with a nervous aversion to where I have just stood, as if something there might blow up or drag me down by the heel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselve...s clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I need not say what match I would touch, what system endeavor to blow up; but as I love my life, I would side with the light, and ...let the dark earth roll from under me, calling my mother and my brother to follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »