Shocking Sayings

73 sayings found from the Modern era

It is difficult to believe that the American and British forces would surrender unconditionally.

— Emperor Hirohito 1945
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It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.

— Haile Selassie 1936
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

— Karl Marx 1843
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Africa proper has no history as it is not a historical continent and has nothing to show in the way of development.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1830-1831 (published posthumously)
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To be a Christian is the most terrible of all things, if one really means it.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1849
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In order to live a life that is truly worth living, one must at some point become thoroughly disgusted with it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer Posthumous publication, from notes prior to 1860
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Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing other than the meaning you choose.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1946
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The most marvelous thing about the world is that it is a world of possibility; and the most wondrous fact about man is that he is a possibility.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1947
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The greatest evil is not radical, but rather is without roots. It is the evil of thoughtlessness.

— Hannah Arendt 1978
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My mind is not like a machine, but like a hand. Its job is to make things, not to analyze them.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein c. 1931-1937
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Always to be judged, and to be judged without the possibility of a defense, that is the plight of the innocent.

— Albert Camus 1942
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My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts.

— Gregor Mendel 1866
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The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.

— Georg Simmel 1903
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