“Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.”
Sarah Vowell (1969) American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.”
Sarah Vowell (1969) American author, journalist, essayist and social commentator
“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
TRICK 'R TREAT DIRECTOR MICHAEL DOUGHERTY ON THE FILM’S RISE TO CULT CLASSIC STATUS http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/17/trick-r-treat-director-michael-dougherty-on-the-films-rise-to-cult-classic-status?page=2 (October 17, 2013)
“Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.”
Ira Levin book The Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazil (1976)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Aphorism 146 from Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) an 1886 book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Translated from: Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
Source: Gutenberg-DE
Translation source: Hollingdale
Misattributed
“Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian