Saadi Quotes

If we can kill Saddam, we should.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

All right, come on in! We’ll meet you man to man. You will kill us, but you will pay for it.

If nothing else I have become an expert on fate.

We’ll bring bin Laden’s head on a platter with flies on his eyeballs.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Our vengeance shall rival Spanish ferocity. Our goodwill is at last exhausted; and, since our oppressors compel us to mortal warfare, they shall disappear from America and our land shall be purged of the monsters that infest it. Our hate shall be inexorable and our war shall be to the death.

… those who have never heard a shot, never hears the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated … but cry out for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

Why haven't you killed them yet?

I am a great respector of fate.

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.