Top Horror Quotes
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the...
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
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abolition, belief, christianity, freedom, heretics, horror, ministers, profit, religion, slaveholders
Horror Definition
(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it...
Jawaharlal Nehru
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atheism, bigotry, blind belief, condemn, dogma, horror, india, organized religion, spectacle, superstition