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«Goodness is never one with the minds of these two: one who wields a weapon and one who feasts on a creature's flesh.»
«Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts»
«Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Culture
| Keywords:
manufacture, professors, wield, wielded, wields
«Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.»
«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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commonly, equivalent, everlasting, goose, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, obsolete, pen, quill, quills, steel, The Quill, torture, wield, wielded, wields, yielded
«In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands»
«And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Bureaucracy
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bureaucracy, pygmies, Pygmy, The Giant, wield, wielded, wields
«Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!»
«Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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fecal, fecal matter, historically, intangible, intangibles, proximity, repulsion, unmentionable, wield, wielded, wields
«Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
cuts, cutting out, cut into, cut through, cut up, ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, heals, nonviolence, powerful, sword, The Man Who, wield, wielded, wields, wounding
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