Quotes About Instigators

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

Memes don't move: Signal-instigators do. This means the idea of a meme may be a meme, but the spoken word 'meme' is not itself a meme; it is a signal. A meme can only be a state of matter coded in 'brain language.

Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Recessions can be triggered by many causes, or combinations of causes.

What if we were the instigators of his doubt, what if he was beginning to realize that everything he had known thus far was a lie, and that we were the ones who held the key to truth? We agreed that we would never sit with him again, not even if he asked. "A dinner with us might get him killed," Katie said. I wanted to dismiss the comment as the melodrama of a twenty-three-year-old, but I knew it wasn't that. In North Korea, such a consequence was entirely possible.

26. Caution about Instigators of Dissension: Division and disunion in society is created by elements that follow their doubts and pursue misdirected passions.  Such people solely rely on their personal opinions and vested interests rather than on reliable sources and consider their own judgment superior to that of their leader.[29]

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

they thought they could use their freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed. They became instigators, not objects, of willful force and injustice. They justified their behavior by their own terrible experiences.

On learning that the instigators of the uprising had been shot, she was incensed both by the fact that they had been shot at all and the fact that not enough of them had been shot.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

There is a sort of maleficence in history: it solicits men, tempts them so that they believe they are moving in its direction, and then suddenly it unmasks, and events change and prove that there was another possibility. The men whom history abandons in this way and who see themselves simply as accomplices suddenly find themselves the instigators of a crime to which history has inspired them. And they are unable to look for excuses or to excuse themselves from even a part of the responsibility.