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Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.

Some people in Indonesia say they are content, but in fact most of them are miserable. People say they are not poor, even if they take water from the gutter and live in a carton shack. They say they are not afraid, because even the horror they are experiencing every day, is not allowed here to be defined as fear. If it is, the families, the officials, and mass media, mock it.

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What will probably happen, if this continues, is that Syria will be partitioned into probably three regions; a Kurdish region - which is already forming - that could pull out and join in some fashion the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, maybe with some kind of deal with Turkey.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

The horror that is America is disgusting.

The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.

The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying when that's what you're going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

The movies that are honored at The Oscars are always a certain type: Old-fashioned. It's a bunch of well-made, old-fashioned movies that support our idea of ourselves. They uplift the human spirit. That's why horror films never even get nominated.

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

There have been a lot of horror anthologies as of late; movies like V/H/S and The ABCs of Death have brought the anthology back in style. We sort of felt like, "Why don't we do one and do our own thing?

There are the horror fans that love the Evil Dead because of the humor, but I’m sure it’s not all of them. Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of what it was, that it's hard to believe even now that in 1930s and 1940s, before something like this had happened, that it could be impossible to imagine the extent of this horror.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

This man can make a horror movie without makeup.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.