Cheated Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen…

— John Updike

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million…

— Helen Keller

“They believed us and perished for it. Our statecraft, our learning Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning Whither they…

— Rudyard Kipling

Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

— Lord Byron

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our…

— Saul Williams

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,—these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings…

— Victor Hugo

Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he'd…

— Ant Middleton

“Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound.…

— Roman Payne

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members…

— Nicholas D. Kristof