A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Earth Force Fraud Howling Wilderness

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Henry David Thoreau

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

George Orwell

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

Denis Kearney

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

Katherine Anne Porter

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

T. J. Stiles

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

Louisa May Alcott

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

Toni Cade Bambara

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

Bryan Fogel

But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

Johannes Kepler

A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness.

Peter Hitchens

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

Ben Aaronovitch

Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product - whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football - our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can't commit fraud.

Eric Schneiderman

We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.

Eric Schneiderman

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.