Begetting Quotes
15 quotes by 12 authors
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It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther
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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,…
— Laurence Sterne
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort —…
— George Saunders
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Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring…
— John of Damascus
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The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the…
— Elaine Scarry
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Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them…
— Helmut Gernsheim
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Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
— Charles Kingsley
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
— Elisabeth Rohm
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Dear friend, since you have said all that a man who is thoughtful could say or do, even one who was older than you are…
— Menelaos
Who Wrote These Begetting Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 15 Begetting Quotes as follows: