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...naive of me-what marvelous things human beings can do! But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. And now you mustn't stroke anyone's head-you might get your hand bitten off. You have to hit them on the head, without any mercy, although our ideal is not to use force against anyone. H'm, h'm, our duty is infernally hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Borderline Bismarck | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...want domination, we must take all that goes with it, and that is complete dictatorship for all of us. We cannot continue to be a free European people. We cannot be free men ourselves if we want to enslave the rest of the population. Is democracy so vile, so worthless that we should throw it away because the Minister of Justice has difficulty with native agitators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa: Liberty or Death | 2/14/1953 | See Source »

...opinion, be daily washed, even at the cost of added janitorial service. It does not necessitate Victorian moralism or feminine squeamishness to regard these vulgarities outrageous. Perchance, a visiting dignitary may some day be inspecting Lamont and feel the need of relief. That he should be faced with vile and obscene drawings, unworthy of the name of Harvard, is an infuriating disgrace. The library authorities should see to it that a relentless erasure war is waged against this sort of indecent depravity; and perhaps they will at least succeed in compelling the perverted minority to make their assignments elsewhere. Jackson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMONT TAKE NOTICE | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

Mental Brutality? As the session drew to its close, Morris blew up with a bang. "Down here in Washington," he said, "you've created an atmosphere so vile that people have lost confidence in their Government . . . I don't think that any man with red blood in his veins could sit here and take the insinuations left by the diseased minds in this chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: I Guess I Am a Softy | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...rabbits to test the smoking qualities of cigarettes, and never have I finished an article with such a feeling of revulsion and disgust. Men who would torture animals (under any pretext) are a filthy scum and a disgrace to the human race; and I have never read a more vile form of torture than that developed to prove the relative merits of rival brands of tobacco . . . If you, or any group, plan to come down on these stinkers like a ton of brick, and need funds, you can put me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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