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Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

— Saint Ambrose

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

— Harold H. Greene

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

— Sid Vicious

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

— Sun Tzu

Bring the army of the faithful through.

— George Meredith

Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.

— Mamnoon Hussain

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

— Thomas More

Do unto others, then run.

— Benny Hill

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

— Phaedrus

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

— Thaddeus Stevens

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

— Evelyn Waugh

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