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«Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bloody, Commit Suicide, exhausts, lasts, monarchies, monarchy, murders, The monarchy, wastes
«I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, ''They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.»
«I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.»
Author: Oliver Stone
(Motion-picture director, Producer, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
bloody, horrified, horrify, horrifying
«If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)»
Author: Theodore Dreiser
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
attributed, bandage, bandaged, bandages, bloody, circumstance, invented, personally, protect
«Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.»
«Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing up»
Author: Wendy Cope
| About:
Christmas,
Peace
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bloody, goodwill, loving cup, Peace On Earth, washed-up, washing-up, washing
«In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.»
«Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Christianity
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absurd, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, Christianity, infect, infected, infecting, infects, Religions of the world, ridiculous
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bills, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, commit, definition, enable, innocent, peaceable, revolution, shed, tax, The State, this year, violent
«If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce»
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