Arresting Quotes

• The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Law

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

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• Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

  Winston Churchill

  Muslim Faith, Agriculture, Religion Of Islam

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

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• Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Queens, Fall

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

  Loretta Lynch

  Freedom, Responsibility, Power

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• No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

  Winston Churchill

  Muslim Faith, Islam, Stronger

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.

  Zach Braff

  Gob, Want, Matter

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Muslim Faith

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Libertarian Party, Poetry, Catholic

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• Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

  Richard Fleischer

  Sex, Desire, Crime

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• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Educational, Growth

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

  Eric Liu

  Jobs, Couple, Men

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• Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Phrases, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

  Thornton Wilder

  Believe, Theatre, Events

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

  Joan Didion

  Understanding, Tea, Hot

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• I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games -- even if it's not as sassy and high tech -- is World at War because. That game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.

  Guillermo del Toro

  War, Sassy, Thinking

  "Guillermo Del Toro Talks Call Of Duty". Interview with John Gaudiosi, www.ign.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

  Edward Conlon

  People, Amazed

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• Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

  Duane Chapman

  Mountain, Caves, Born

  "Why I love ..." by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2005.

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• How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Artist, Animal, Judging

  “Flesh of your flesh” by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.

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• It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Science, Dust

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marijuana, Government, People

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• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

  Arthur Balfour

  Education, Science, Men

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• Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Science, Epidemics

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• Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered - one does not usually lead to the other - but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the 20th century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.

  Daniel D. Polsby

  Gun, Reality, Government

  "Armed against genocide" by Glenn Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2006.

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• No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
  That round and round still turns with onward might,
  Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
  Of an unknown hereafter.

  Charles Cowden Clarke

  Time, Night, Might

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