Famous quotes containing the words deadly, physical and/or force:
“Detestable flatterers! the most deadly gift that divine wrath may give a king!”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
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