Initiation Quotes

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

A true initiation never ends.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.