Most Read This Week In Monsters

A monster is often a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order.

A monster can also be like a human, but in folklore, they are commonly portrayed as the lowest class, as mutants, deformed, supernatural, and otherworldly.

Animal monsters are outside the moral order, but sometimes have their origin in some human violation of the moral law (e.g. in the Greek myth, Minos does not sacrifice the white bull Poseidon sent him to the god, so as punishment Poseidon makes Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, fall in love with th ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Monsters"

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Quotes Tagged “Monsters”

“ What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. ”
― Werner Herzog

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“ No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces. ”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

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