(39 quotes found)
“There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
Charles Baudelaire
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill
“Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”
Walter Benjamin
“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a na”
William Shakespeare
“Montana and the federal government are in a taxpayer-subsidized killing frenzy.”
Dan Brister
“What I see at this moment are the signs of a normal market. Previously, there was a frenzy.”
Christopher Armstrong
“We're hoping to change a lot of records. We're kind of going on a record-breaking frenzy.”
Carrie Enright
“George didn't understand how to refuse things so he would panic and throw himself on the floor in a frenzy.”
Wendy Hislop
“There's been a fee frenzy, ... (A wide range of charges) have been beefed up.”
Robert McKinley
