#commits

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#another #because #characteristic #commits #group

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ↗

— William Penn

#his #man #mob #passion #reason

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ↗

— Plato

#ever #injustice #made #more #suffers

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #appears #bad #boss #called

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it. ↗

— Russell Baker

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Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. ↗

— Henri Barbusse

#army #commits #each #fight #large

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#believe #commits #good #problems #process

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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