There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sti...cker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment--anywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
this frenzy, like bees stinging the heart all morning,... will keep the angels with their windows open, wide as an English bathtub.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with th...e sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they... survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o'clock ... At five I have my abyss."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly im...agine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,... Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pagea...nt marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to a... frenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am s...urrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »