Jean Racine Quotes

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

I love splashing the blood around.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

History is a bath of blood.

Bloody Ground

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.

The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries. All empires have been cemented in blood; and, in those early periods, when the race of mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations, the first effect of the combination, and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed, and best calculated, was their mutual destruction.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

More blood! More blood!

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.