Monster Army

Famous quotes containing the words monster and/or army:

    By heaven, he echoes me,
    As if there were some monster in his thought
    Too hideous to be shown.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    This fantastic state of mind, of a humanity that has outrun its ideas, is matched by a political scene in the grotesque style, with Salvation Army methods, hallelujahs and bell-ringing and dervishlike repetition of monotonous catchwords, until everybody foams at the mouth. Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstacy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)