K~Terror Quotes

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

My main concern is with the world order

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

People, generally, suck.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?

Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars –With fire of unrecorded starsThat light a heaven not our own?(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

It was like the beginning of the end of the world.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!("The Doomed Man")

By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

The Government goes after the little guys, not their own.

We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.

I’m supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...--Nil Caveat

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves

I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking.

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to turn it off. And, my hat! what odd things come up with the water!("Out Of The Deep")

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this

The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.

You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO’s and board members.

Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.

Life is Too Short and Memories Are Forever!

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

It was probably my mother's screaming that frightened the cat. It's just a guess. No one knows for sure why a cat fell from a ten-storey building onto my head.

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

We will be advancing beyond just even odds.” – Janett Lee Wawrzyniak, Secret Terror in Wavelengths – Wave Links: Inter-Dimensional

What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked, ” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.

Next time, we go slowly. I want to explore every delicious inch of you.

When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")

It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.---Sir Arthur Conan Doyle