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corpse
«My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening»
Author: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
| About:
Funerals,
Wedding
| Keywords:
bride, christen, christened, christening, corpse, funeral, wedding
«Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.»
Author: Ingrid Newkirk
(Activist)
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
antibiotic, antibiotics, corpse, lade, laded, laden, lading, meat
«People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
class struggle, constraints, corpse, everyday life, explicitly, referring, refusal, subversive
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
bad manners, corpse, devoid, imaginable, The Untouchables, untouchable, untouchables
«Politicians / power itself / are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.»
«Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
casts, cast out, condemned to death, consign, consigned, consigns, corpse, cruelly, human soul, Law of the Sea, penal, pitiless, remorseless, withheld