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Nordlings. The men before men, creatures of great power and incredible cruelty.
The lifers
who, even seven states away, are the porches
where we land.
Actually, they where the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had not been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.
Sham idealists: the quite large number of people who profess ideals as a form of premium for other-life insurance, and are content to lay up slavery and destitution for their descendants so long as they are enabled to produce personal copybooks of elevated views at the gate of heaven.
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
Stupid, fragile mortals.
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.
Envy of prosperity, confirmers of scourge, desperate of hope. They have a victim in every certain way, a mediator to every heart, and a tear in every complaint.
The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.
We're not Lormerians, with their temples and their living goddesses, and their creepy royal family. We're people of science, and reason.
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.
A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.
The great silent majority.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.
[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven.
Fanatics. Every teacher of work-righteousness is a trouble-maker.
Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.
Believers with nothing to believe in.
Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.
an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers".
A radiant fellowship of the fallen.
Those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
I'm an agnosto-theist.
The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.
who accompany ignorants, lives in misery.
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
We're the propaganda monkeys.
The digital download junkies.
The skunk smoking geezers
With an inflatable Jesus.
We're the kitsch and cool.
Divide and rule.
they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.
The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.
The living sinners on deadly ground.
I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.
God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.
Literalists of the imagination
They believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead
Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority
Sneaks, spies, defenders, heroes, masterminds, tenacious bastards - it doesn't matter what you call us. We're the ones who will do whatever it takes to stop those who believe they're entitled to wealth and power at the expense of others."
"The family business," Yelena said, smiling.
Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.
Some hate us, think us outlaws to hang at the gallows.
Some fear us, think demons to burn at the stake,
Some worship us, think us children of the gods.
But all know us.
Who votes for these uninspiring gorgons?
Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels.
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.
Scattergories is second base for Christians.
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
The weak, the sinful, the uncertain - they are most often the ones called.
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.
Can you please tell me who you people are?"
"Criminals. Offenders. Monsters. We've all been imprisoned in Tartarus for discretions committed against the gods of Olympus."
~ Hope/Daedalus, The River Styx
Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
Loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
Ancestors who had held themselves higher than God, and had been brought lower than man.
(Those women whom the distaff
no longer claims
nor spun cloth)
driven made,
mad,
mad
by Bacchus.
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save
as you prefer
the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints
Those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all
People who go out and try to be a rebel at night,
Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.
All who, while unable to be saints but refusing to bow down to pestilences, strive their utmost to be healers.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
These 'anthropologists of peace' (who in fact are rather aggressive academics - the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia.
As the voice of their priests chanting, 'In Racism we Trust' and their applause gets louder, I find myself in a limbo of conscience, out of my depth, just an exhausted heretic, in a purgatory, yet denying submission.
I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.
Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul.
Until my tears land upon Greek soil, I shall forever live in exile.
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
brethren without seek
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.