#bloodshed

I can't admit to myself that the creation of a Palestinian state won't happen. What I know is that with each passing year it gets more and more difficult to happen, not least because there is more and more bloodshed, generation upon generation. ↗

— David Miliband

#because #bloodshed #creation #difficult #each

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#avoid #bloodshed #i #said #stand

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#bloodshed #hard #i #labored #trouble

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#did #i #killed #people #want

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#after #anger #another #another way #because

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#bloodshed #i #i think #only #resignation

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

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! ↗

— Padraic Pearse

#bloodshed #cleansing #final #horrible #horror

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#break #country #god #oppression #records