All 5 Uses of
initiate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- They knew that the man who would now assume the responsibility of ordering repairs and initiating the action which would lead to the discovery that the repairs could not be made, would incur retaliation from unknown enemies, that his fellow workers would become mysteriously silent and would not testify to help him, that he would prove nothing, and if he attempted to do his job, it would not be his any longer.†
Chpt 3.5
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.†
Chpt 3.7
- Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.†
Chpt 3.7
- We do not initiate the use of force against others or submit to force at their hands.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man's deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of…†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(initiate as in: initiate discussions) to cause (something) to begin