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Quotes About Trampled

Because dearest Lisbeth, I will not abide in a country in which my rights are not protected. If I am to be trampled underfoot, I would rather be a dog than a man. I am certain that, on this point, my wife thinks with me.
~ Heinrich von Kleist
I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
~ Sylvia Plath
There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
~ Charles Spurgeon
The dignity of the Haitian people has been trampled on.
~ Jovenel Moise
His soul stretched tight across the skies That fade behind a city block, Or trampled by insistent feet At four and five and six o'clock;
~ T. S. Eliot
Each one is traveling his own way ad though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck the fruits; the procession scrambles toward the exit sign, and such a panic is there, such a sweat to escape, that the weak and the helpless are trampled into the mud and their cries are unheard.
~ Henry Miller
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
~ Jean Paul
Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Pannion Domin … why are we sparing a mole's ass for some upstart zealots? These things burn out. Every time. They implode. The scroll scribblers take over – they always do – and start arguing obscure details of the faith. Sects form. Civil war erupts, and there it is, just one more dead flower trampled on history's endless road.
~ Steven Erikson
I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.
~ Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
~ Sam Houston
for when had the true faith been other than persecuted and trampled under foot? If one came to think of it with eyes purified from the tears of carnal impatience, what was it but a glorious martyrdom? Blest
~ Charles Kingsley
It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet.
~ Munia Khan
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.
~ letterman david ii
So much for the First Amendment! The chief and primary expression of our constitutional rights is being trampled by a "right" that the framers of the Constitution failed even to enumerate, the right to untrammeled sexual practice.
~ Unknown
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
~ William Hazlitt
power had trampled his weary, badly-worn face. The Elignon's voice burrowed into the holy man's mind. "Welcome home, Prime Guardian.
~ Michael O'Brien
The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Like every other guide or wildlife lover who is eventually eaten or trampled, I felt that I had a bond with this herd that would make me safe with them. I wanted to try my luck again.
~ Peter Allison
Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.
~ 2 Kings 7:17
And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
~ 2 Kings 7:20
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
~ Isaiah 16:8
For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
~ Isaiah 25:10