- Nov 07, 2020
Extinguish Quotes
What fades when harm is done.
Extinguish quotes here address a hard truth: destructive acts, including terrorism, ultimately hollow out the people who commit them. One speaker separates civil resistance from indiscriminate violence while another links prosecution to prevention. Read more in our Crime quotes.
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia gave us the mission to destroy terrorism and extinguish it in the North Caucasus, and results have already been achieved.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020