
“5192. To kill two Birds with one Stone.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Miscellaneous
Source: The Doctor Prescribed Violence https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/books/the-doctor-prescribed-violence.html, Adam Shatz Sept. 2, 2001, New York Times
“5192. To kill two Birds with one Stone.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Only a persuasive tone can kill two birds with one stone.”
“I could kill two birds if I wasn't so stoned.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Destroying Kabaa stone by stone, is less evil than killing a single Muslim…”
Narrated by An-Nasaie and At-Termithi [citation needed]
Sunni Hadith
1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
Context: To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. It is a way of allowing his conscience to fall asleep. At this moment the oppressed fails to be his brother's keeper. So acquiescence-while often the easier way-is not the moral way. It is the way of the coward.
Signs of Change (1888), How We Live And How We Might Live
Context: Fear and Hope — those are the names of the two great passions which rule the race of man, and with which revolutionists have to deal; to give hope to the many oppressed and fear to the few oppressors, that is our business; if we do the first and give hope to the many, the few must be frightened by their hope; otherwise we do not want to frighten them; it is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor?
Source: Preface to The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. xlvi