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Even [Marx], whose information about people came mainly from books, must have known that the Manifesto’s depiction of the relations between men and women was grossly distorted. His rage was therefore as is so much modern rage entirely synthetic, perhaps an attempt to assume a generosity of spirit, or love of mankind, that he knew he did not have but felt he ought to have
anthony daniels— How—and How Not—to Love Mankind
So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes , and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
george orwell— "London Letter" (December 1944), in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)
For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgement always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. 290
john dryden— 1681Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.779-82.
In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.
ernst hanfstaengl— Quoted in "Nazis in the News" - Mar 5, 1933
For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
john dryden— John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Part I, line 779.
Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
john dryden— Pt. I line 781-782.
With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
Milton Friedman— Ch. 6 "The Role of Government in Education"
Sexuality and eroticism are the intricate intersection of nature and culture. Feminists grossly oversimplify the problem of sex when they reduce it a matter of social convention: readjust society, eliminate sexual inequality, purify sex roles, and happiness and harmony will reign. Here feminism, like all liberal movements of the past two hundred years, is heir to Rousseau .
camille paglia— p. 1 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
There is in many, if not in all men, a constant inward struggle between the principles of good and evil; and because a man has grossly fallen, and at the time of his fall added the guilt of hypocrisy to another sort of immorality, it is not necessary, therefore, to believe that his whole life has been false, or that all the good which he ever professed was insincere or unreal.
— Lord Selborne, Symington v. Symington (1875), L. R. 2 Sc. & D. 428.
For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
john dryden— John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), Part I, line 779.
He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
— Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 3, line 80.
Despite his physical state and the abuse inflicted by DINA agents, who grossly mocked his condition as priest, he found strength to console his cellmates, sharing his crusts of bread or fruit peels to help us survive.
antonio llidó— Fellow detainee, Julio Laks Feller sworn testimony before the Spanish consulate on November 27, 1977.
A widely heralded view holds that nuclear power is experiencing a dramatic worldwide revival and vibrant growth, because it’s competitive, necessary, reliable, secure, and vital for fuel security and climate protection. That’s all false. In fact, nuclear power is continuing its decades-long collapse in the global marketplace because it’s grossly uncompetitive, unneeded, and obsolete—so hopelessly uneconomic that one needn’t debate whether it’s clean and safe; it weakens electric reliability and national security; and it worsens climate change compared with devoting the same money and time to more effective options.
amory lovins— The Nuclear Illusion p.1. (May 2008)
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause, That admiration did not hoop at them.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act II, scene 2, line 105.
