Shocking Sayings

73 sayings found from the Modern era

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.

— Mary Shelley 1818
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Many eminent criminals appear to me to be persons superior in many respects [...] to the average judge.

— H.G. Wells Undated, cited in a 2016 book
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the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp.

— Jules Verne 1873
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[Ted] told me openly he wished me dead.

— Sylvia Plath 1962
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The Communist is the main enemy—the Jew.

— Jack Kerouac 1969
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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

— Allen Ginsberg 1956
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Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory.

— Alexander Pushkin c. 1820s-1830s
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

— Lord Byron 1811
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I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.

— Andy Warhol 1975
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Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

— John Lennon Unknown
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Nick Barmby is up there with Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini and Ronaldo [Nazario].

— Pele Unknown, mentioned in 2022 and 2020 articles.
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We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members.

— Frederick Douglass 1845
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

— Eleanor Roosevelt Unknown, part of general quotes collection
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Being Bitter Makes You Immobile, And There's Too Much That I Still Want To Do.

— Richard Pryor 2020 (cited in article)
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I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

— Benjamin Disraeli Unknown
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I told them I was a Prophet of God, and had a right to obtain revelations, and that I should not be trammelled by men.

— Joseph Smith 1843
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I did not invent penicillin. Nature did. I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming 1940s
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The study of bacteria has opened up a new world of knowledge, and it is a world full of wonders.

— Robert Koch 1880s
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If I had to choose between the two evils, I would rather have a world with no nuclear weapons than a world with nuclear weapons.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1954
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The world has been changed, for good or ill.

— Enrico Fermi 1945
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