Quotes about initiation (16 Quotes)





    All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.






    Although business started to revive a couple of weeks after the terrorist attack, the initiation of bombing in Afghanistan caused another slowdown, ... Our ultimate performance will be contingent upon resumption of more normal business patterns.

    The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

    We hold Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian Authority responsible for the initiation of this wave of violence, ... And we believe that the Palestinian leadership has to make up its mind whether they intend to reach a peace agreement which we believe is within our reach, or alternatively, to lead the whole region into a deadlock that might result in deterioration and maybe even confrontation.

    The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure fearlessness and achievement.

    Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.


    ...there is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than mathematics, ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....




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