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Quotes About Deaths

Of the 3 million prisoners taken by the Soviets during the war, more than a third died in captivity.
~ Keith Lowe
The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)
~ Kenneth C. Davis
No nation had wanted to report the true number of deaths. Only Spain, who had remained neutral in the conflict, shared news of the illness, which is why it ended up being called the Spanish influenza.
~ Isabel Allende
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
~ Richard Hughes
The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.
~ Paul Haggis
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.
~ Julian Assange
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
~ Ken Livingstone
Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice.
~ Suzanne Collins
When the deaths first started increasing, there were all sorts of rumors. From defective childhood vaccines to pesticides in our food—people grasped for any excuse.
~ Suzanne Young
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
~ Edmund Morgan
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.
~ David Whitehouse, Bed
Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science, and political theory under Stalinism or during the Vietnam War. Even
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science, and political theory under Stalinism or during the Vietnam War.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The distribution was massively skewed, with the bulk of the deaths coming from birth and childhood mortality.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that every $1 increase in the price of gasoline is associated with an additional 1,500 motorcycle deaths annually.10
~ Charles Wheelan
In the end millions (some state upward of three million, mostly children) had died, mainly from starvation due to the federal government of Nigeria's blockade policies.
~ Chinua Achebe
90 percent of all deaths from malaria in the world occur in sub-Saharan Africa.45
~ Thomas Sowell
We Eat the Wrong Kinds of Fats: A typical American diet averages 34 to 40 percent fat. Even as far back as 1988, the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health attributed 35 percent of cancer deaths to diet, saying
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.
~ Cat Cora
Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.
~ Bill Gates
I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles
~ Sara Niles
War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)
~ Charles de Leusse