Famous quotes containing the words master and/or vile:
“The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“God clothed himself in vile man’s flesh, that so
He might be weak enough to suffer woe.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)