"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."

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Source : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.492, Penguin

Emily Bronte

#Enemy Quotes #Violence Quotes #Resorts Quotes

“First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.”
“I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.â€ (p. 57).”
“I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.”

Source : "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2003.
“The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.”
“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.”
“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.”
“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”
“But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.”

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