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Quotes About Bloodshed

There is a reason that Russian troops in both Moscow and Beslan acted in ways that maximized bloodshed; they actually aimed to maximize the fear and the horror. This is the classic modus operandi of terrorists, and in this sense it can certainly be said that Putin and the terrorists were acting in concert.
~ Masha Gessen
He had begun business many years ago—as a wandering peddler on the blind face of a distant land, a peddler who carried his wares on his back, a peddler who usually came at the fall of darkness and was always gone the next morning, leaving bloodshed, horror, and unhappiness behind him.
~ Stephen King
For convenience, history is often viewed as a conflict between the instinct for order and the impulse toward chaos. Both are necessary: both are manifestations of the need to survive. Without order, nothing exists: without chaos, nothing grows. And yet the struggle between them sheds more blood than any other war.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
democracy should be understood not as the answer to the question "Who should rule?" (namely, "The People"), but as a solution to the problem of how to dismiss bad leadership without bloodshed.
~ Steven Pinker
But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.
~ Jorge Amado
The initial conclusion of the subcommittee was that "needless slaughter" took place on November 11, 1918. However, this finding was beaten back by vocal House members as a slur upon the nation's wartime leadership. The report that was finally approved found no one culpable for the Armistice Day bloodshed. Throughout
~ Joseph E. Persico
Before all is peaceful, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red
~ Erin Hunter
Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.
~ Erin Hunter
Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.
~ Ernst Junger
If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.
~ Maya Banks
You can't take a city without shedding blood.
~ Bernard Cornwell
God said to me, "You are not to build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood." 1 Chronicles 28:3
~ Beth Moore
They seemed to arrive at some form of friendship. Maybe they were like a couple of weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by side in the trenches, and having no inclination to relive the old battles found a certain comfort in the simple knowledge that they'd been young together and present at the same terrible moments of bloodshed. Even though, in their case the injury sustained there was my mother's t the hands of my father.
~ Joyce Maynard
I'd kill for a cup of coffee." "They'll probably give us coffee if we give them money. No bloodshed necessary," he said
~ Judith Arnold
Sadam representa todo lo que abomina cualquier demócrata: es un dictador sanguinario, que tiene las manos manchadas con la sangre de los iraquíes que se han atrevido a oponérsele y con la de los kurdos a los que ha asesinado masivamente.
~ Julia Navarro
We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.
~ Sun Yat-sen
En medio de un hervidero sanguinolento de cabezas cercenadas nació la maldita revolución de los derechos; en medio de otra nace ahora la bendita revolución de los deberes.
~ Fernando Vallejo
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.
~ Haruki Murakami
Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. 'War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.
~ Haruki Murakami
And in that moment, he was finally able to accept it all. In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood. One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.
~ Haruki Murakami
There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage of acute loss.
~ Haruki Murakami
The critical thing about Western democracy is the fact that you usually have a transition of power without bloodshed. That is an enormous advantage. But still, democracy as we know it was only invented recently in the West, historical speaking. It did not really work in ancient Rome. It functioned for less than 200 years in ancient Athens.
~ Helmut Schmidt
We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.
~ Mwai Kibaki
How in the name of heaven can anything ever be made better by bloodshed and mass slaughter? How can any improvement be brought about by men who wish only to smash and destroy, who cannot speak of their hopes and dreams without their faces twisting in hatred and anger?
~ Sophie Hannah