#fiend

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#chief danger #danger #extraordinary #fiend #man

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. ↗

— James Laughlin

#concentration #fiends #germans #good #group

It pays to be a fee fiend. ↗

— Suze Orman

#fiend #pays

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#bad #coke #fiends #hang #marriage

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#fiend #full-time #i #once #shameless

[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#christopher-moore #love

Inspector, there's no smoking allowed in here," said a uniformed officer who had been called to the scene. Cavuto waved to the drawers [at the morgue]. "Do you think they mind?" The officer shook his head. "No, sir." Cavuto blew a stream of smoke at Gilbert [a dead guy]. "And him, do you think he minds?" No, sir." And you, Patrolman Jeeter, you don't mind, do you?" Jeeter cleared his throat. "Uh...no, sir." Well, good," Cavuto said. "Look, on the side of the car, Jeeter. It says 'Protect and Serve' not 'Piss and Moan.'" Yes, sir. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#christopher-moore #love

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#combine #dope #fiend #miser #those

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#art #bear #blowing #fiend #him

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. ↗

— Hugh Miller

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