#crush

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#beneath #crush #down #grinds #him

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#crushed #dangerous #evade #hope #law

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#i #lincoln #man #no problem #problem

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life. ↗

— Emma Watson

#having #i #know #life #never

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#ahead #child #crushed #feed #i

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#continually #crushing #fiction #read #write