"Thuggee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this sect are called Thugs, or T'hugs, and their profession Thuggee. In the south of India they are called Phansigars: the former word signifying "a deceiver;" and the latter, "a strangler." They are both singularly appropriate. The profession of Thuggee is hereditary, and embraces, it is supposed, in every part of India, a body of at least ten thousand individuals, ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... wrong in suppressing Thuggee in India? If not, would it be wrong in putting down any enthusiast who attempted to set up the worship of Astarte in the Haymarket? Has the State no right to put a stop to gross and open violations of common ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley |
