Witchcraft Quotes - Page 5

• No me importa mucho la política. Me alejo de ese tipo de brujería porque la gente acaba muerta. Prefiero morir por la música.

  Cass McCombs

  People, Care, Kind

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• That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

  Al Yankovic

  Reading, Kids, Gateways

  "I Love the 90's Part Deux" TV series, VH1 channel, 1998.

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• The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, Important, Modern

  "Permacultura: Diseño para vivir". Entrevista con Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated if resort could occasionally be had to witchcraft.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Long, Suffering, Would Be

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• Si se dejan sin cultivar las tierras agrícolas, en pocos años vuelve la selva, y no faltan indicios de que un peligro similar acecha siempre a los campos del pensamiento, que, por el trabajo de trescientos años, han sido desbrozados y puestos en cultivo por los hombres de ciencia. La destrucción de un porcentaje muy pequeño de la población bastaría para aniquilar el conocimiento científico y llevarnos de nuevo a la creencia casi universal en la magia, la brujería y la astrología.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Mentir, Hombres, Años

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• Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.

  Deborah Harkness

  Strong, Blood, Risk

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• Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

  Rebecca West

  Father, Years, Waiting

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Reality, Air

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

  John Ruskin

  Ideas, Roots, Astrology

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.229, University of Virginia Press

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• Soy un fracaso glotón y atiborrado. Un desperdicio. Mi cuerpo no está acostumbrado a los carbohidratos altos en azúcar mezclados con brujería. Apenas puede con sopa y galletas.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cuerpo, Sopa, Azúcar

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). "Wintergirls", p.155, Penguin

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• When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Opposites, Two

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell (1939). “The de Coverley papers”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• La fe pura en la benevolencia de la Divinidad también puede degenerar en formas destructivas de religión como la otodoxia, el fundamentalismo, el sectarismo, el fanatismo, la magia negra y la brujería.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Meditation, Black

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• Desde Agustín en adelante, los teólogos han tratado de obligar a la gente a aceptar su interpretación especial de las Escrituras, y las torturas de la inquisición, el potro, el tornillo, la hoguera, las persecuciones por brujería, los azotes de mujeres desnudas por las calles de Boston, el destierro, los juicios por herejía, el ronzal al cuello de Garrison, la muerte de Lovejoy, la marca del capitán Walker, los gritos de infiel y ateo, todo ha sido con este propósito.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Ateo, Boston, Gente

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). "History of Woman Suffrage", Ayer Company Pub

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• El progreso intelectual humano, tal como ha sido, es el resultado de nuestra larga lucha por ver las cosas "tal como son", o de la forma más universalmente comprensible, y no como proyecciones de nuestras propias emociones. El trueno no es una rabieta en el cielo, la enfermedad no es un castigo divino, y no todas las muertes o accidentes son consecuencia de la brujería. Lo que llamamos Ilustración y a lo que sólo nos aferramos tenuemente, con las uñas, es la lenta comprensión de que el mundo se desarrolla según sus propios algoritmos internos de causa y efecto, probabilidad y azar, sin tener en cuenta los sentimientos humanos.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Lucha, Cielo, Castigo

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). "Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America", p.149, Macmillan

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• I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Football, School, Kids

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

  John August

  Children, Big Fish, Yards

  "Fictional character: Edward Bloom". Big Fish, 2003.

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• I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Pensar, Gente, Amable

  "Witches in Queensland?". "The Religion Report" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. December 13, 2000.

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• I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Mean, Fire, People

  "Witches in Queensland?". "The Religion Report" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. December 13, 2000.

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• In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Reflection, Self, Suffering

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.247, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.

  Bob Barr

  Pain, Marijuana, Medicine

  "Barr Booed for Anti-Pot Remarks in Home District Event". Drug War Chronicle, www.stopthedrugwar.org. May 17, 2002.

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• I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Thinking, Scary

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• En Italia, la Inquisición estuvo condenando a muerte hasta finales del siglo XVIII, y la tortura inquisitorial no se abolió en la Iglesia Católica hasta 1816. El último bastión de apoyo a la realidad de la brujería y la necesidad de castigo han sido las iglesias cristianas.

  Carl Sagan

  Cristiano, Ateo, Realidad

  Carl Sagan (2011). "El mundo encantado por los demonios: Science as a Candle in the Dark", p.528, Ballantine Books.

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• Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Men, Magic

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.181

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• Entiendo que a menos que se tenga un gobierno de leyes, en lugar de un gobierno de personas, no se puede proteger la disidencia. Y entiendo, como mujer que probablemente habría sido quemada en el mercado por brujería hace sólo unos 200 años, que necesito la Primera Enmienda más que nadie. Y que incluso si me repugna la pornografía infantil o las producciones de Bob Guccione, que tengo que proteger esas cosas, porque esencialmente está en mi propio interés hacerlo.

  Erica Jong

  Niños, Gobierno, Yo

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