Moloch's 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. 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

#5. The world makes way for the man with an idea.

Orison Swett Marden

#6. 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

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

Allen Ginsberg

#8. 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

#9. You don't touch my face! It's a birth right! This was given to me by God! You do not touch my face!

Cody Rhodes

#10. 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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Tom Stoppard

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

Hakim Bey

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Love is a diseases which makes the mind stop functioning and the heart beating faster.

Amit Abraham

#17. My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history - for never has there been so little war in a war.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

George Lucas

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

Bertrand Russell