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Letter "H" » hideous
«The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.»
Author: Felix Adler
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About:
Ethics,
Philosophy
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Keywords:
affirmation,
as such,
hideous,
morally,
outcry,
per se,
Philosophy of,
respected,
revered,
violated
«The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.»
«Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.»
«There are people who are beautiful in dilapidation, like old houses that were hideous when new»
«Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show»
Author: Matthew Arnold
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Critic,
Poet)
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About:
Funerals
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Keywords:
ceremonious,
crowded,
gape,
gaped,
gapes,
gaping,
gloom,
hideous,
spare,
whispering,
whisperings
«The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.»
Author: Og Mandino
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Essayist,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
chore,
concentrating,
dispersing,
drops,
fall behind,
Hard rock,
hasty,
hideous,
hone,
honed,
honing,
Leave No Trace,
passage,
rocks,
rushes,
trace,
uproar,
weakest
«The radio makes hideous sounds.»
«One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.»
«Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so»
Author: Lord Byron
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Keywords:
blast,
blasted,
blasting,
hideous,
horrid,
midnight,
notes,
owl,
phrase,
portentous,
sadder,
songs,
The Midnight,
The Owl,
woe
«Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
admirable,
attribution,
claims,
hideous,
idolatries,
idolatry,
monster,
omnipotence,
plead,
pleaded,
pleading,
pleads,
rationalism,
recognition,
sanctifies,
sanctifying,
stock,
suppression,
suppressions,
The Admirable