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Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.
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Laura van den Berg
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Born:
1983
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Most
,
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,
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Via
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Whether
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Really
,
Fundamental
,
Actually
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
Politics
War
Own
Monstrous
About
Fact
Individual
Individual Human
Most
Instruments
Quarrels
Condemned
Shocking
Human
Human Beings
Conventions
Victims
Beings
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
War
Men
Cold
Monstrous
About
Absurd
Another
Quarrel
Blood
Trained
Personal
Should
Who
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur
Home
Evil
Power
Blindly
Rally
Monstrous
Has-Been
Some
Terrible
Always
Foreign
Been
Up
Did
Going
Behind
Us
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
Great
Humanity
Power
Few
Enough
Monstrous
Minds
Worthy
Great Minds
Make
Hearts
Endow
Us
Using
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre
Wise
Experience
Old
Parents
Become
Otherwise
Monsters
Monstrous
Our
Neither
Detachment
Pretend
Fade
Cheat
Reach
However
May
Childhood
Regarding
Plane
Wholly
Away
Ever
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Federico Garcia Lorca
Lie
World
Walk
Lost
Monstrous
Machines
Recognize
Something
New
Like
Greatest
York
New York
Awful
Streets
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
Anthony Holden
Competition
Practice
Design
Monstrous
Financially
Some
Architect
Never
Had
Merely
Built
His
Years
Won
Get
Did
Which
Public
Who
Peter
Suffered
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
Blase J. Cupich
Life
Death
Dignity
Crimes
Monstrous
Penalty
Those
Guilty
Penetrating
Intrinsic
Moral
Sacred
Condemned
Erase
Death Penalty
Truly
Question
Human
Human Beings
Us
Who
Beings
Even
Right
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
Carlos Fuentes
Rights
Prison
Human Rights
Monstrous
Ghraib
Record
Simply
Abu
Geneva
Iraq
Human
Happened
Conventions
Violations
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet
Government
People
Law
Black
Black And White
Example
White
Monstrous
Must
Ability
Somehow
Determined
Given
Only
Both
Absurd
For Example
Knows
Than
Fewer
Anyone
Acquainted
Preferences
Certain
Assessment
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