“To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.”
SCYLVENDI PROVERB
The Thousandfold Thought (2006)
“The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.”
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And yet forgives the butcher's knife." by William Blake?
William Blake 249
English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827Related quotes
“The public seldom forgive twice.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
(1741–1801) Swiss poet
No. 595
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>The pulse of war and passion of wonder,
The heavens that murmur, the sounds that shine,
The stars that sing and the loves that thunder,
The music burning at heart like wine,
An armed archangel whose hands raise up
All senses mixed in the spirit's cup
Till flesh and spirit are molten in sunder —
These things are over, and no more mine. These were a part of the playing I heard
Once, ere my love and my heart were at strife;
Love that sings and hath wings as a bird,
Balm of the wound and heft of the knife.
Fairer than earth is the sea, and sleep
Than overwatching of eyes that weep,
Now time has done with his one sweet word,
The wine and leaven of lovely life.</p
Mahatma Gandhi
(1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Mahatma Gandhi, June 1946, in an interview with Louis Fischer. Rabbi Stephen Pearce, Torah Offers Ethics, rules, so all is fair in love and war, September 2000, http://www.jewishsf.com/bk000901/torah.shtml . Quoted from Hinduism and Judaism compilation https://web.archive.org/web/20060423090103/http://www.nhsf.org.uk/images/stories/HinduDharma/Interfaith/hinduzion.pdf The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950) by Louis Fischer. The quote is in the context of Gandhi's argument to his biographer that collective suicide would have been a heroic response that would have "aroused the world and the people of Germany to Hitler's violence".
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
St. XXXIX
Adonais (1821)
Context: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep—
He hath awakened from the dream of life—
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings.
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The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1962, Rice University speech
Context: There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again.
