Quotes About Bloodshed

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Este es uno de los secretos de casi todas las revoluciones y el destino trágico de sus caudillos: sin tener sed de sangre, verse obligados a derramarla.

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.

I somberly reflected that the history of the Highlands is five hundred years of cruelty and bloodshed followed by two hundred years of way too much bagpipe music.

The answer is a complicated, dramatic one. I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.

I can tell you at once that nothing you touch today will have more bloodshed, suffering, and woe attached to it than the innocuous twin pillars of your salt and pepper set.

The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play

The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.

En mi opinión, a ningún hombre se le ha sometido a una humillación mayor que a Moctezuma; ninguna raza ha sido exterminada más despiadadamente que la del indio americano; ninguna tierra ha sido violada de modo execrable e infame como lo fue California por los buscadores de oro. Siento vergüenza al pensar en nuestros orígenes: nuestras manos están empapadas de sangre y crimen.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

In any major conflict, each side fights for its own cause—a belief system they consider worth dying for. Alas, there is not an objective, omnipotent arbiter who can simply decide the merits of each issue and put them to rest without bloodshed, thereby rendering armed conflict obsolete. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, Conversations with Erasmus

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.

The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.

A part of me wishes they'd all just stand up and battle to the death. Make it simple. Take control through bloodshed and war.

We are all raccoon-drunk on moonlight and bloodshed and the heady, underblossom smell of the forest.

Christians. They're determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones." The Lady's face hardened. "This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.

and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN.

Prokristapána, za každý galon spáleného velrybího tuku byla pÃ…â"¢ece prolita víc než jedna kapka lidské krve.

There will be killing till the score is paid.