Top 100 Quotes About Bloodshed
#1. There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.
M.F. Moonzajer
#2. Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Alfred Adler
#3. I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
Chief Joseph
#4. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#5. I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad ... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
Mohammed Omar
#6. We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
#7. It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.
Salam Fayyad
#8. No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.
Menachem Begin
#9. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.
Vikram Seth
#10. I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.
Margaret Atwood
#12. We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
Duong Van Minh
#13. In silence, alone with his conscious, he asks himself perhaps, 'What is honour, and isn't the condemnation of bloodshed a prejudice?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. Chiron's brutality increased with every kill. Could a synthetic develop a thirst for bloodshed? He became sadistic. Savage. Without mercy. Ultraviolent.
C.J. Anderson
#15. It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.
Daniel Handler
#16. Acharya, is war the only solution to political differences?' 'Wise pupil, politics is war without bloodshed and war is simply politics with bloodshed.
Ashwin Sanghi
#17. We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Lidia Yusupova
#18. The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering ... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!
Conan O'Brien
#19. Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most of all, he wants Sin to suffer for helping to lock him in there. (Zakar)
Oh, this just gives you the warm and fuzzies, doesn't it? (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
Ratan Tata
#21. God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel
#22. The pieces line up, so ordered and polite. The battlefield before there's bloodshed.
Skye Warren
#23. The reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.
Marcel Proust
#24. The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#25. Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
Barton Gellman
#26. Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians ... I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.
Chana Bloch
#27. peace is the ultimate goal of all religions but even at the end of this century we continue to see how religion is the cause of much strife, bloodshed and disgrace among human beings. Nothing but the flag of religion can crush human beings and humane emotions so completely.
Taslima Nasrin
#28. That sports were theatrical events meant to fill a primal void created by the lack of bloodshed men craved.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#29. War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#30. Never the romance without the bloodshed!
Rick Moody
#31. Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.
Richard Engel
#32. All I know of Inviernos is bloodshed and cruelty and rage and ... " Her voice trails off as tears fill her eyes.
"And me," Storm says softly. "You know me.
Rae Carson
#33. The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.
Dave Abrams
#34. There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
Scilla Elworthy
#35. Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
Barry Goldwater
#36. The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
Sam Harris
#37. No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
Abraham Lincoln
#38. Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.
Albert Ellis
#39. 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.
Michael Chabon
#40. The world is weeping. It is weeping, because its sons and daughters have betrayed it. Why do they turn to bloodshed when there is so much abundance on this planet? Why must its children suffer at the hands of greed and hatred?
Charles Sterling
#42. I am weary of your quarrels,
Weary of your wars and bloodshed,
Weary of your prayers for vengeance,
Of your wranglings and dissensions
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#43. Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I'm still alive.
Suman Pokhrel
#44. Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.
August Spies
#45. Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.
Anwar Sadat
#46. A grin spread across her face. He'd not only come for her, he loved her enough to start a galactic war. How cool was that? Nothing says I love you like bloodshed and violence.
Eve Langlais
#47. We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
Fred Hampton
#48. Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of force by both Georgia and South Ossetians. The statement that could have averted bloodshed was blocked by western countries.
Sergei Lavrov
#49. If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.
Maya Banks
#50. And, as in all fairy tales, there was bloodshed, there was loss.
Jennifer McMahon
#51. I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
Chief Joseph
#52. So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#53. And though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
Herman Melville
#54. Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.
David Ignatius
#55. Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
Seneca The Younger
#56. I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
Catherine The Great
#57. The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.
George Orwell
#58. From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.
Simon Schama
#59. My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#60. For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#61. No country in the world looks upon America as a friend. When the U.S. is mentioned, people are reminded of war, aggression and bloodshed, and that's not a good thing. In other words, the American people are paying for something they don't believe in.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#62. One spear to start a war, one spear to prime them. One spear to bring them all and into bloodshed bind them.
Alis Franklin
#63. There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
Joan Baez
#64. Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.
Kevin Connolly
#65. Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#66. I like castles almost as much as I like museums. Centuries of bloodshed and betrayal and heartache, all under one roof. You just don't get history like that back home
Kelley Armstrong
#67. fierce lovers.
and battle warriors
both come
from the same place.
there is bound
to be,
some bloodshed.
Sanober Khan
#68. As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#69. I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.'
She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?'
'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing.
Lynn Kurland
#70. The Christian is not to be disturbed by the
chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man's sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: The Bible is true.
Billy Graham
#71. Within the magical community, most brides are virgins. Do you have any idea how many curses and other horrible things are associated with virginity and virgin bloodshed? For witches, having sex before marriage invites all sorts of evil magic in.
Elizabeth A. Reeves
#72. And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
Kamisese Mara
#73. Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.
Ilona Andrews
#74. He was hers and she was his and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war.
Sarah J. Maas
#75. You two have to get along, or avoid each other," Burnett spouted out, as if fully aware of what had turned her eyes a light yellow. "No bloodshed."
Dells frowned. "You always take the joy out of things."
(della talking about chase)
C.C. Hunter
#76. It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.
Frank Herbert
#78. Spy
Though at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-ending battle to see who will survive amid so much bloodshed, I don't need to fight anymore, only wait for people I've never met to decide who I am.
Paulo Coelho
#79. Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown
#80. Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Padraig Pearse
#81. We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
Vera Farmiga
#82. How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
Adolf Hitler
#83. I caught you, saved you from painting the ground with your organs. You owed me a favor, and I asked for a single day without bloodshed.' 'Yeah, but you didn't specify which day.' With that, Paris dismissed the angel.
Gena Showalter
#84. For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#85. Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
And fretting grief the enemy of life;
All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
Edmund Spenser
#86. It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
Bob Marley
#87. Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with
aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.
Toba Beta
#88. of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Anonymous
#89. Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#90. The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ... , we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
Francois Rabelais
#91. And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#92. It had not occurred to me that it would get this bad, that indignity would dance upon bloodshed.
Miranda July
#93. 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
#94. It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov
#95. Do you not listen to our daily meetings about the state of your lands?"
"Of course I don't. They're dead boring."
"Not everything can involve bloodshed, Annwyl."
"Can't you come get me when there is bloodshed? Otherwise just leave me alone to read.
G.A. Aiken
#96. I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
Abdu'l- Baha
#97. I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.
Eugene V. Debs
#98. Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Josh Gad
#99. It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#100. She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own.
Margaret Atwood
