Ferdinand Maximilian Quotes

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

We must accept the possibility of bloodshed if we are to bring about order.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

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

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

The world is too violent right now.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

American blood will run in the streets.

There will never be quietness in this country till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.

We can easily defeat the armies of Mexico, slaughter them by thousands.... Is not Life miserable enough, comes not death soon enough without resort to the hideous enginery of War? People of the U.S.! Your rulers are precipitating you into a fathomless abyss of crime and calamity! Why sleep you thoughtless on its verge, as though this was not your business?

And this I hate—not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.