Aftermath quotes
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation."
"I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on."
"In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this."
"Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath."
"I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath."
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"The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life"
"In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence."
"Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath."
"Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense."
"I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job."
"The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption."