William Butler Yeats Quotes

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

William Butler Yeats

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• To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Violence
  • Hatred
  • Rise

• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Crazy

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • High
  • Violence

• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Years
  • Three
  • Half

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Violence
  • Organization

• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Violence
  • Childhood

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Common
  • Tax
  • Particularly

• I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Violence

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Violence
  • Feel

• For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Decades
  • Until

• His the author's renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Violence
  • Author

• Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • World
  • War
  • Understanding

• Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Team

• When I was 17, I was about 5'6''.

  

  Dylan O'Brien

• Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
  • Think
  • Being

• The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Violence
  • Common
  • Half