Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future--with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial anim...als--have a worse record to show in these "sciences" than in almost any scientific endeavor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-h...and manner.... Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another--cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; f...inally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant...; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sap ...and seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have ...never been allowed to have their say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meane...st woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »