hideous quotes

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.9.

Machines are worshipped because theyare beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  Sceptical Essays.