Manichean Quotes

#1. This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!

Angela Carter

#2. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

Lord Byron

#3. A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Alex Carey

#4. Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with - this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

James K. Morrow

#5. Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.

Nora Roberts

#6. But what so different of eating plants? Everything has it's life. If you are so pure, why not just stop eating? So you can have no shit?

Xiaolu Guo

#7. From the looks of it, he spent a lot of time outdoors and liked to be prepared, both big pluses in Billie's book.

Elaine Hussey

#8. So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

Vinny Guadagnino

#9. You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy ... But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

Alexander Gustafsson

#10. There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there.

Brittany Bowe

#11. Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Rick Steves

#12. Oh, come on. Wouldn't you rather go upstairs and lick your wounds? Maybe make an ice pack for your crotch?

Rachel Vincent

#13. Regardless of her sexual nature, when she woke to discover that she had killed one vampire, only to be bound by another, her reaction was likely to be far from sweet OR submissive.

Joey W. Hill

#14. You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

Chris Hughes

#15. Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

Philip K. Dick

#16. Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

Charles Mingus

#17. It takes discernment and God's help to know when we have to keep on trying or let go and let God, and if you trust God to lead you, He'll make sure you don't miss out on His best.

Jamie Larbi

#18. Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Adrian Cronauer

#19. I forgot that I was the son of kings, and served their king

Various

#20. I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

John Gallagher Jr.