"So long as all is ordered for attack,……" — William Butler Yeats
"So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do."
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all…
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He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on…
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If…
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The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be…
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Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
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Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has…
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The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation…
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The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
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There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is no virtue higher than non-injury.
— Swami Vivekananda
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These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child;…
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