Bloodshed Quotes

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

— Sam Houston

I hope I can settle my internal conflicts without bloodshed.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

— Menachem Begin

“bloodshed, with dozens of people dead and with little hope that”

— Anonymous

“The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

— Eduard Shevardnadze

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

— Patrick Chappatte

“Some soldiers wear silk robes, have pearly white teeth, and engage in handshakes instead of bloodshed.”

— Nick Oliveri

Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.'…

— Kevin Connolly

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a…

— Edward Jenks

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . .…

— Chana Bloch

“Their premise is that chaos and bloodshed are preferable to just regulations. We disagree.”

— Brandon Mull

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

— Samantha Power

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

— Salam Fayyad

Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.

— Ilona Andrews

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle…

— Paul Harris

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet,…

— Radhanath Swami

Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the…

— Barry Goldwater

This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the…

— Fred Thompson

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because…

— John C. Danforth

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I live here, yet I am not seen. The world pulses with bloodshed, that sends shivers down my spine. Try, I do,…

— Susan L. Marshall

My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought…

— Anonymous

Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The…

— David Ben-Gurion

Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge…

— Jack Balkin

“Srinagar hunches like a wild cat: lonely sentries, wretched in bunkers at the city’s bridges, far from their homes in the plains,…

— Agha Shahid Ali

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there…

— Taslima Nasrin

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least…

— Amin Maalouf

Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of…

— Richard Cobden

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Though "Veer-Zaara" is a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not…

— Yash Chopra

“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act…

— William H. Willimon

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

— Chief Joseph

I'm kind of a pacifist, I don't really believe in imaginary bloodshed.

— Paul Rudd

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

— Catherine the Great

“Satan’s breath be damned, the nasty beast is still in there.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

— Chief Joseph

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

— Mao Zedong

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

— Joan Baez