"To me it seems a shocking idea. I despise and loathe myself, and yet you thrust self at me from every corner of the church as tho...ugh I loved and admired it. All religion does nothing but pursue me with self even into the next world."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You could not hate the cannibal they wrote Of, with the nostril bone-thrust, who could dote... On boiled or roasted fellow thigh and throat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man renowned for repartee Will seldom scruple to make free... With friendship's finest feeling, Will thrust a dagger at your breast, And say he wounded you in jest, By way of balm for healing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your eyes have pardoned our faults, your hands have touched us... you have leaned forward a little and the waves can never thrust us back from the splendour of your ragged coast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at lea...st, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He serveth the servant, The brave he loves amain;... He kills the cripple and the sick, And straight begins again. For gods delight in gods, And thrust the weak aside; To him who scorns their charities, Their arms fly open wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwi...n and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »