Quotes About The Eunuchs

#1. In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

Amadeo Bordiga

#2. Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

John Steinbeck

#3. In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

Douglas Wilson

#4. Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

Miguel

#5. Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding.

David Eddings

#6. While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

Edward Gibbon

#7. Black slaves seem to have cost from two to three hundred dirhams; black eunuchs, at least two or three times as much. Female black slaves were sold at five hundred dirhams or so; trained singing girls or other performers, at ten or even twenty thousand.

Bernard Lewis

#8. God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

Paul Bocuse

#10. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Hippocrates

#11. Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.

Jed S. Rakoff

#12. Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

Michael Foot

#13. Neutrality may be useful, but it's useful like eunuchs are useful. Once you cut off their balls they grow big and strong, but you can never be sure if they will serve the harem or the master.

Vaughn Sherman

#14. Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

John Braine

#15. I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.

William Powell

#16. Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

Edward Young

#17. Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

George Meyer

#18. A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

Walter Darby Bannard

#19. Human bipolarity was both the binding force and the driving energy for all human behavior, from sonnets to nuclear equations. If any being thinks that human psychologists exaggerate on this point, let it search Terran patent offices, libraries, and art galleries for creations of eunuchs.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

Tina Brown

#21. Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people with something worth renouncing. That's why the church won't allow eunuchs to become priests.

Antal Szerb

#22. His hand shone dully in its light. No good for throttling eunuchs, but heavy enough to smash that slimy smile into a fine red ruin.

George R R Martin