Blood Quotes - page 2

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well. (Frank Sinatra)
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. View quote
Denis Diderot
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! View quote
Honoré de Balzac
No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. View quote
Lee Strasberg
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. View quote
Charles Alexander Eastman
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby. (Germaine Greer)
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. View quote
James Madison
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. View quote
George Gershwin
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. View quote
Thomas Paine
You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood. View quote
Graham Greene
The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. View quote
Georg Büchner
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. (Wallace Stevens)
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. View quote
Norman Mailer
The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species. View quote
Adam Ferguson
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman