Violence should not always
Violence should not always beget more violence. Gabrielle Zevin
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Violence should not always beget more violence. Gabrielle Zevin
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The men-of-words- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role … Read more
Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children. Enoch
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day. Emile M. Cioran
I know it’s not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it’s just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it’s more likely that people who … Read more
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation’s businesses. … Read more
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set … Read more
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too. Edan Lepucki
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. Friedrich Nietzsche