Bloodshed Quotes

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

Hard, Trouble, Avoid

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong

Politics, War, While

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong

Politics, War, While

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

Nature, War, Hard

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston

Love, Her, Name

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
Vera Farmiga

God, Live, Find

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!
Padraic Pearse

Lost, Nation, Blood

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel

God, Country, Team

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

Politics, War, Yes

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa

Courage, Working, Sense

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

Life, Religion, Best

I can't admit to myself that the creation of a Palestinian state won't happen. What I know is that with each passing year it gets more and more difficult to happen, not least because there is more and more bloodshed, generation upon generation.
David Miliband

Happen, Difficult, Year

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
Eduard Shevardnadze

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Idea, Stand, Casualties

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Paul Harris

Struggle, Political, Liberty

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Anger, Control, Thought

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

Religion, Good, Best

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

Chance, Cry, Rights

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

Life, Islam, Sacrifice

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
Kamisese Mara

Said, Stand, Avoid

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

Peace, Danger, Mankind

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Political, Themselves, Stop

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

Power, Government, Together

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