#blood

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#fear #gods #men

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blood #cheap #cost #freedom #much

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#always #best #blood #body #did

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#away #blood #children #crown #deprived

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#jane-yellowrock #paranormal-romance #skinwalker #urban-fantasy #faith

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird? ↗

— Jessica Biel

#could #drink #i #i think #my own

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. ↗

— Sam Houston

#bloodshed #bring #civil #constitution #her

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#blood #drawing #during #emergency #faint

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed. ↗

— Tertullian

#christians #down #grow #more #mow

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#blood #carried #dust #dwell #soul