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Crushed Quotes

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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
Edward Grey

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Emo Philips

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
Jon English

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.
Trish Stratus

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
Poppy Z. Brite

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverley Lewis Root

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
John Malkovich

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Jeff Bridges

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Thomas B. Macaulay

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Murray Rothbard

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