“History is a bath of blood.”

— William James

1900s, The Moral Equivalent of War (1906)

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William James 246

American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842–1910

Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer

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“Those who have come alive out of a blood-bath live longer and have more children.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

“Shoot down, behead and eliminate the Socialists first, if need be, by a blood-bath, then war abroad. But not before, and not à tempo.”

Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia

Letter to German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow (1 January 1906), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 22
1900s

“O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never
Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne

Bk. 13, ch. 4, as translated by Letitia Elizabeth Landon for Isabel Hill (1833)
Corinne (1807)

“You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

"Porcelain and Pink"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“It is blood which moves the wheels of history.”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

Speech in Parma (13 December 1914) quoted in Foreign Affairs, May 1924, p 234 https://books.google.com/books?id=DsRYAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA234&lpg=RA1-PA234&dq=%22It+is+blood+which+moves+the+wheels+of+history!%22&source=bl&ots=v0BzInFnc_&sig=gEqKCdgCipviuomrOppXZrk6E_E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgtZuZvY_ZAhXJmeAKHWwWB_EQ6AEIUTAG#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20blood%20which%20moves%20the%20wheels%20of%20history!%22&f=false
1910s