Bloody Quotes - Page 20

• Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  War, Blood, History

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• The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.

  Kate Millett

  Leadership, Media, Ideas

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.23, University of Illinois Press

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• Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

  Angelina Grimke

  Father, England, Conflict

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.188, Penguin

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• The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.

  Albert Camus

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Wallowing in this bloody sty,
  I cast for fish that pleased my eye

  Robert Lowell

  Eye, Fishing, Wallowing

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• The bay-trees in our country are all withered,
  And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven.
  The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,
  And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change.
  Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap;
  The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
  The other to enjoy by rage and war.
  These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Stars, Kings

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin (2011). “The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Blood, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.

  Tom Weston-Jones

  Cutting, Thinking, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

  Charles L. Grant

  Player, People, Directors

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• There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

  Warren Beatty

  Today, Ships, Beatty

  "The Rules of the Game : Jutland and British Naval Command" by Andrew Gordon, (p. 120), 2005.

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• I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

  Princess Diana

  Mother, Feelings, Most Amazing

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• Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

  John B. S. Haldane

  God, Sacrifice, Christianity

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.231, Transaction Publishers

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• Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Noses, May

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• Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

  John le Carre

  Party, Desert, Disillusionment

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• I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Years, Hearing, Cambodia

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• It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Years, House, Effort

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• A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

  James A. Garfield

  War, Fate, Jewels

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.29, Best Books on

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• In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
  To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
  By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Names

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.114

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• The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

  L. Frank Baum

  War, Fall, Hands

  Saturday Pioneer editorial, December 20, 1890.

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• I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Lying, Sick, Cover Ups

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

  Diana Vreeland

  Joy, Tears, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

  Fred Trueman

  Finest, Volume, Bowlers

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• From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

  Tom Six

  Kids, Drawing, Twists

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• Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, "Oh, but yes he does get screen credit."

  Mike Royer

  Thinking, Guy, Doe

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Cheesy, Stuff

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