“A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman
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“I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”

Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 43
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Context: Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.
"Danger Zone", Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous (1995)

“ Princeton for the Nation's Service http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/wilsonline/4dn8nsvc.html”, Inaugural address as President of Princeton (25 October 1902); this speech is different from his 1896 speech of the same title.
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