Hydra Quotes

• The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Equality, Liberty, Three

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.366, Cambridge University Press

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• HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Animal, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社

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• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

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• One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.

  Allen West

  Health, Issues, Immigration

  "West on Issues Facing America". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2010.

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• A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.

  Sybille Bedford

  Rocks, Sea, Ego

  Sybille Bedford (1990). “As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice”, Trafalgar Square

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• Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Monsters, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Fighting, Cutting, Dark

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

  Francis Quarles

  Cutting, Tree, Soldier

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.32

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• Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

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• The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Cutting, Long

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• Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Philosophy, Fall, Eye

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• Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Infamous, Stalking, Hundred

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• Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Grief, Two, Born

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• I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

  Emo Philips

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Winning, Government

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.242, Penguin Books India

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• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

  Thomas Browne

  Confused, Taken, Men

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1

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• I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Dream, Pain, Father

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• I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Teenage, Pregnancy, Boys

  "School as Wonder, or Way Out" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2012.

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• CDU head Angela Merkel has tried for years to serve two sides: the conservative side by holding up her CDU party membership. But then at the same time she acts as though she were also a Social Democrat. I don't have this hydra-headed nature. In the end, people will vote for the Social Democratic original.

  Martin Schulz

  Party, Years, Two Sides

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Tyrants, Public Opinion, Mediocrity

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• Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Monsters, Cooperation

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

  Andrew Jackson

  Corruption, Investigation, Supporter

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• No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Nymphs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1125, Library of Alexandria

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• George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent."

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Bottles, Littles

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 1, 2008.

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