Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

Yesterday afternoon 247 Spanish and Canary Island prisoners were decapitated. Today all the Spaniards and Canary Islanders who were sick in the hospital were decapitated, constituting the last of all those included in the order of Your Excellency.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

The guillotine governs.

We will cut off his head with the crown upon it.

Thing is - I'm easily imitated, never duplicated.

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

Every life is extraordinary.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

When people go at war they cheapen things.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.