Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State."
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Fists
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins."
Catherine Marshall
Author
"Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all."
James Cash Penney
Businessman
"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none."
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"Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be."
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"Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?"
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"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
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"You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around."
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"There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist."
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"Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God."
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"The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist..."
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"He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."
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"And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty."
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"I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life."
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"hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch"
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"When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her."
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"And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine."
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"Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -"
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"...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters"
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"We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists."
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"You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing."
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"You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?"
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"I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws."
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"We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist."
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