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«I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, engender, Engendered, engendering, engenders, guilt, hence, recipient, recipients, The Discourses
«If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Communication,
People,
Sorrow,
World
| Keywords:
a good deal, good deal, hence, unreservedly
«Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it»
«If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove»
«If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, astray, confusion, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, helpless, hence, morals, undone
«Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
borne, excusable, hence, innocent, lying, metallic, offers, syllogism, syllogisms, unavoidable
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annihilation, attach, attach to, ceases, denies, destruction, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, finish, hence, imperceptible, irrefutable, observe, onward, passage, transformation, transformations, transmutation
«Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
appearance, does not exist, foundation, hence, humility, mere, The Foundation
«In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Military,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, hence, neglected, prepare for, ruin, safety, state of war, The Art of War, vital
«How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!»
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