“Vile, depraved souls!” he shouted, trying to remember where he’d left off. “Fools and harlots!” But it was no use. His diatribe had devolved from insulting to incoherent.

Robert Kroese, Distopia

Hermetic quote Kroese Distopia diatribe

Consider also:

  1. “it possessed such a sublime mixture of arcane dogma and abject rudeness that listeners were never sure whether to be bored or offended”
  2. “The ancients, he says, called souls not only Naiads but bees, ‘as the efficient cause of sweetness’; but not all souls ‘proceeding into generation’ are called bees, ‘but those who will live in it justly and who after having performed such things as are acceptable to the gods will again return (to their kindred stars).”
  3. “The towers, dead at the top, lacked the guidance of enlightened, purified souls”
  4. “I understand that we need to take every step possible to keep America free from the threat of terrorists and saboteurs, but we should always keep in mind that Freedom makes America great. When we remember this, we also have to remember that Freedom comes with a price. That price may be as steep as our lives or the lives of those we love.”
  5. “Oh, my,” she said, her heart racing. “You are a bad little kitty.”