Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility. — Miguel de Molinos Copy Share Image
I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and… — Soong May-ling Copy Share Image
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace Copy Share Image
A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image