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Quotes About Incitement

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
~ Afeni Shakur
provocation.
~ Barry Eisler
But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.
~ Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich
What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?
~ Amitava Kumar
Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.
~ Ayman Odeh
To describe a phenomenon as a cancer is an incitement to violence. The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justifies "severe" measures.
~ Susan Sontag
Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.
~ Jude Morgan
Trump was legitimized by birtherism, and he was abetted by a billion-dollar incitement industry.
~ Steve Schmidt
In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
~ Robert Smith
It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle.
~ Thomas Hardy
Back in my old neighborhood, there was a special contempt for the kind of guy who was always trying to get two other guys to fight each other. Today, it is considered a great contribution to society to incite consumers against producers, tenants against landlords, women against men, and the races against each other.
~ Thomas Sowell
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
~ Clare Short
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
~ David Blunkett
Netanyahu is no king, his government sows division and incitement.
~ Benny Gantz
Israeli Defense Force Order 101, Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions, was put into effect in 1967. It forbade Palestinians to use the word Palestine in official documents, to depict or raise or fly their flag, or to make any sort of art that combined the colors of the traditional flag.
~ Colum McCann
As an anonymous letter has recently informed me, a dictatorship is a powerful incitement to the composition of anonymous letters. I have never known a time when so many were in circulation. They are continually arriving at my door. Inspired by passion and enjoying the irresponsibility of their orphaned condition, they nevertheless have one great advantage over legitimate correspondence: they expose their ideas to their ultimate conclusion; they empty the sack.
~ Thornton Wilder
I like bothering people and stirring things up.
~ Tim Daly
We'll not have this Treaty executed. Let us rather execute the man who signed it for us behind our backs.'36 Griffith said of the article in which the foregoing occurrred: 'I say that is a deliberate incitement to the assassination of the plenipotentiaries and they won't get off with it... I know the atmosphere which is being prepared. You may assassinate us but you won't intimidate us.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
I think Trump uses social media as a way to get to people's lowest common denominator. He uses it to incite fear. He talks about simplistic ideas.
~ Saikat Chakrabarti
Hey if there is a fire, you have to throw gas on it.
~ Unknown
The one-third of America that identifies as "conservative" will be isolated even more profoundly within an information ghetto of deception and incitement.
~ David Frum
When you call somebody a Nazi, you can make the argument that you're inciting violence and here's how: As a country, we all agree that Nazis are bad. We actually invaded an entire continent to defeat the Nazis.
~ Dan Crenshaw
Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
~ Kapil Sibal
When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that's inciting violence.
~ Dan Crenshaw