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Source: Webster's dictionaryVillage reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. Jean Giono
Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women. Emil Cioran
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries. Robert Anton Wilson
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. Herman Gorter
There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels. Desiderius Erasmus