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What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. -- Emil Nolde
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. -- Elihu Root
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. -- Otto Schily
Music is an incitement to love. -- Horace
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. -- Clive James
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. -- Joseph Addison
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you. -- Ignatius of Loyola
There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. -- Robert Spencer
We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries. -- Angela Merkel
If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police. -- Uri Orbach
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. -- William Shakespeare
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I. -- Pete Seeger
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress. -- Samuel Johnson
Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement. -- Geoffrey Hill
I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts. -- Eskinder Nega
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem. -- David Blunkett
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are -- Samuel Johnson
Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage. -- Nayantara Sahgal
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. -- Samuel Johnson
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits. -- William James
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion. -- Charles Evans Hughes
Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. -- Henry Rollins
A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance. -- Susan Sontag
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. -- Samuel Johnson
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. -- George Bernard Shaw
Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust. -- Ian Paisley
The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. -- J. G. Ballard
The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra. -- Jude Morgan

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