Initiation Quotes

The 1920s were essentially the time when I learned the business of performing. It was my initiation into the world of show business.

He has no time for book learning or pussy-footing about. He wants to show these young men and women what they`re up against - evil exists and they better know what they`re getting themselves into. He`s a one-man initiation ceremony, a walking rite-of-passage. He doesn`t believe in treading lightly with Harry or the other students because that won`t prepare them for the real world.

In that time, Sibley didn`t mince words. He supported the right to vote for women and the initiation of a graduated income tax. He was not going to be told what to think.

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.

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.

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.

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