When the sea hisses, it speaks, and speech breaks the spell of terror; when it is inert, heaving noiselessly, it is dumb, and seems to brood over mischief. The ocean in a calm is like a sulky giant; one dreads that it may be meditating evil. Moreover, an angry sea looks less vast in extent … Continue reading Marcus Clarke (1846-1881), on the Ocean ::
Tag: fear
Feruccio Busoni (1866-1924), on Banality:
Do not be afraid of banality.
Calgacus, of the Caledonian Army (??-84), on Tyranny ::
What is this formidable Roman army? … [T]he only bond of union among them is fear. And whenever terror ceases to work upon the minds of that mixed multitude, they who now fear, will then hate their tyrannical master.
Ashley Thomson 