#sg

I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#disgrace #kick-a-cat #rape

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. ↗

— Steve Allen

#god #him #holy #must #phrase

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#disgrace #done #indians #live #managed

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#death #devastating #disgraceful #dying #helpless

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#awful #book #convent #disgusted #felt

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#artists #because #criticise #criticism #critics

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#age #am #another #belief #disguise

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. ↗

— Lucius Accius

#death #disgrace #entitled #escape #life

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful. ↗

— Aeschylus

#dead #deeds #disgraceful #evil #good

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. ↗

— Aeschylus

#enemy #hand #hate #ill #mutually