“Harlots and intellectuals are incorrigible.”

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“You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.”

Louis Althusser book Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968), "Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon", p. 2

“Every Harlot was a Virgin once”

William Blake book For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise: [Epilogue] To The Accuser who is The God of This World
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“You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!”

John Bercow (1963) British politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1963)

Addressing Chris Ruane
2014
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-and-nick-clegg-back-john-bercows-plans-to-reform-pmqs-but-conservative-backbenchers-9137037.html

“And Rome – oh, the list is endless there, also - most of them were glorified harlots but better be a glorified harlot than a drab and moral drone, such as the text books teach us woman should be.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

From a letter to Harold Preece (c. December 1928)
Letters
Context: I could name all day, those women I deem great in Greece alone and the records would scarcely be complete. And what of Joan of Arc and Emma Goldman? Kate Richards O’Hare and Sarah Bernhardt? Katherine the Great and Elizabeth Barrett Browning? H. D. and Sara Teasdale? Isibella of Spain who pawned her gems that Columbus might sail, and Edna St. Vincent Millay? And that queen, Marie, I think her name was, of some small province - Hungary I believe - who fought Prussia and Russia so long and so bitterly. And Rome – oh, the list is endless there, also - most of them were glorified harlots but better be a glorified harlot than a drab and moral drone, such as the text books teach us woman should be. Woman have always been the inspiration of men, and just as there are thousands of unknown great ones among men, there have been countless women whose names have never been blazoned across the stars, but who have inspired men on to glory. And as for their fickleness – as long as men write the literature of the world, they will rant about the unfaithfulness of the fair sex, forgetting their own infidelities. Men are as fickle as women. Women have been kept in servitude so long that if they lack in discernment and intellect it is scarcely their fault.

“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

According to Frederic Prokosch, in his Voices: A Memoir (1983), this was once said to him by Housman.
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“If I tended toward frivolity as a boy, I am incorrigibly settled in it now.”

Robertson Davies book The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)

“Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, New York Times (26 August 1981)

“It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"Address on Receiving Lord & Taylor Award" (4 May 1953) in Ideas and Opinions
1950s

“The Harlot Babylon is preparing the nations to receive the Antichrist. The Harlot Babylon will be a religion of affirmation, toleration, no absolutes, a counterfeit justice movement. They will feed the poor, have humanitarian projects, inspire acts of compassion for all the wrong reasons. They won’t know it, beloved they will be sincere, many of them, but their sincerity will not in any way lessen the impact of their deception. The fact that they are sincere does not make their deception less damaging.
I believe that one of the main pastors, as a forerunner to the Harlot movement, it’s not the Harlot movement yet, is Oprah. She is winsome, she is kind, she is reasonable, she is utterly deceived, utterly deceived. A classy woman, a cool woman, a charming woman, but has a spirit of deception and she is one of the clear pastors, forerunners to the Harlot movement.”

Mike Bickle (1955) American writer and priest

The Harlot Babylon
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http://www.god.tv/node/2875
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Rick Perry Partners With Pastor Who Thinks Oprah Is The Precursor To The Antichrist
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-perry-partners-pastor-who-thinks-oprah-precursor-antichrist
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