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  • And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Crush Quotes , War Quotes
  • The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Crush Quotes , Wise Quotes
  • To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Crush Quotes , Work Quotes
  • It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Crush Quotes , Men Quotes
  • To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Crush Quotes , Art Quotes
  • In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Crush Quotes , Country Quotes
  • Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Crush Quotes , Yield Quotes
  • We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Crush Quotes , Flower Quotes
  • Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Crush Quotes , Hammers Quotes
  • Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : William Blake Quotes , Crush Quotes , Philosophy Quotes