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106 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Huey Newton
Huey Newton Activist

"The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out."

Smedley Butler
Smedley Butler Military Officer, Author

"A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do."

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Aeschylus Playwright
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"Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away."

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Mark Lawrence Author
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"A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?"

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
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"It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with."

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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe."

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"Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears."

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