Incites Quotes

#1. The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

Homer

#2. Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

Dean Koontz

#3. There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Juvenal

#5. This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Friedrich Schiller

#6. Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Lord Chesterfield

#7. The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Elizabeth Dole

#8. What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry?

Lucille Anderson

#9. I felt the kind of acute anticipation that a child might experience at a carnival, where each lurid attraction incites fantastic speculations, while unexpected desires arise for something which has no specific qualities in the imagination yet seems to be only a few steps away.

Thomas Ligotti

#10. He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

Aesop

#11. Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror
its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

Vera Nazarian

#12. This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.

Rampo Edogawa

#13. The most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Agnes Repplier

#14. I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: I brought you into this world, I can take you out!

Annastacia Dickerson

#15. All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

Eric Hoffer

#16. Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Mark Twain

#17. The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

Isadora Duncan

#18. I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.

Euripides

#19. The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

Vladimir Lenin

#20. Pilate was required to release one of the prisoners, so he gave the mob the choice of Jesus or Barabbas, a notorious murderer and insurrectionist-in otherwords, someone who incites mobs.
Again, the mob "spoke with one voice" demanding "with loud shouts" that Jesus be crucified.

Ann Coulter

#21. It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

B.C. Forbes

#22. But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#23. The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#24. Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C.

Frank Herbert

#25. Let's escape outside," Isabelle suggested. "Do you have any other talents?"
"I bake and garden."
"Do you sew, too?"
Amber nodded. "I sew whenever anger incites me to mutilation."
Isabelle laughed. "One cannot hang for attacking a piece of cloth.

Patricia Grasso

#26. There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

Newton Lee

#27. Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#28. Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Homer

#29. The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned

Geert Wilders

#30. Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

Georges Pompidou

#31. There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#32. The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Steve Jobs

#33. In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

Friedrich Nietzsche