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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very… — Hannah Arendt
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. — Richard Armour
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left… — J. J. Abrams
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,… — Karen Armstrong
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. — Mary Kay Ash
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel… — Chinua Achebe
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. — Norman Ralph Augustine
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now… — Teresa of Avila
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid… — John Avlon
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come… — Michele Bachmann
I left school on my 15th birthday. — David Bailey
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left… — Russell Baker
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried… — Mikhail Bakunin
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in… — Emily Greene Balch
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes… — James A. Baldwin
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the… — Balthus

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