hideous quotes

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.9.

Machines are worshipped because theyare beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  Sceptical Essays.

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