"For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal."

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Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

James G. Frazer

#Sacrifice Quotes #Criminals Quotes #Doe Quotes

“My pencil is like a fencer's foil.”
“North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer (1856). “The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America”, p.51
“Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.”
“Consider that in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as the 1990s), President Clinton felt that he had to assure an isolationist Republican Congress - repeat after me, an isolationist Republican Congress - that the 20,000 U.S. peacekeeping troops he promised Bosnia as part of the Dayton Accords would only stay deployed for a single calendar year.”
“I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.”
“Humor is the good natured side of a truth.”
“I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.”
“Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.”

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