Moloch Quotes

#1. In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

Horace Mann

#2. Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

Terence McKenna

#3. Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

William Osler

#4. I'm very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Riccardo Tisci

#5. Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch." "Or milk," Deborah said. "Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap.

Jeff Lindsay

#6. I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.

Johnny Rich

#7. If you make your body very strong, really strong, it can fight off anything.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#8. Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism.

Allan Wolf

#9. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.

Truman Capote

#10. Why Have One Heart-Stopping Alpha Billionaire When You Can Have 2?

Scarlett Avery

#11. Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner

#12. Rorshach's journal. October 16, 1985. Been waiting in Moloch's fridge for three hours. Ate two raw eggs and packet of honey mustard sauce. Just realized I am sitting on baking soda. Freezing ass off. Really have to take leak.

Alan Moore

#13. They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven!

Allen Ginsberg

#14. First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

John Milton

#15. Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder"
Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon

Cassandra Clare

#16. I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#17. Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Aldous Huxley

#18. I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Stewart Butterfield

#19. Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?'
Herzen: 'It's the Ginger Cat.

Tom Stoppard

#20. Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Hakim Bey

#21. Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

Cassandra Clare

#22. Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch
the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

John Wilmot

#23. I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't really want to misbehave, but were just feeling lonely or misunderstood or wanted to go outside and play instead of sitting in a hot classroom. (26)

Phyllis Theroux

#25. No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

Bertrand Russell

#26. The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

Rajneesh

#27. No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

Colin Meloy