Gang quotes

Gang

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician

"Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage."

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Harper Lee Novelist
Gang

"That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Gang

"If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.""

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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
Gang

"I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority."

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Deng Xiaoping Politician
Gang

"Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
Gang

"That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!"

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
Gang

"The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks."

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John Cage Composer, Musician
Gang

"There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction."

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