"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Scary Quotes #Needs Quotes #Midnight Quotes

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well.”
“The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.”

Source : "Donna Brazile's Resignation Illustrates Cable TV's Pundit Problem". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. November 2, 2016.
“The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
“The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.”

Source : "The cannibal within" by Lewis Petrinovich, (p. 177), 2000.
“Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.”
“We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.”

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