Begets Quotes (page 2)

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• government
• governing
• govern

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."- Edward R. Murrow Edward R. Murrow

• reading
• reads
• read

Reading begets reading. Nick Hornby

• hope
• wishes
• hopeful

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish; Arthur Schopenhauer

• experience
• him
• men

My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation. Mark Twain

• power
• life
• strong

It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the 'rejects of life.' It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used... Paulo Freire

• light
• star
• night

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ... The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King jr.

• manly
• oneness
• spirits

At one blood labors to beget, Spirits as like as it can, Because such figures need to knit, that subtle knot which makes us man. John Donne

• evil
• ultimate
• destroys

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Martin Luther King jr.

• leaving
• vision
• spring

These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras,... Evelyn Waugh

• solitude
• whimsy

Solitude begets whimsies. Mary Wortley

• humorous
• power
• insulting

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. Suzanne Fields

• greatness
• soul
• great

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. Henry Fielding

• parents
• dance
• which

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. Henry Fielding

• children
• them
• like

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. Thomas Dekker

• good
• political
• politically

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. John Podhoretz