#bludgeon

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. ↗

— William Ernest Henley

#bloody #bludgeoning #chance #circumstance #clutch

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#bludgeoning #instinct #just #more #precision

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. ↗

— William Cobbett

#bludgeon #brute #brute force #force #gives

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#democracy #propaganda #state #totalitarian #totalitarian state

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#by the people #democracy #for the people #means #people

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#also #band #bands #best #black

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bludgeon #digests #facts #magazines #newspapers