“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) Italian patriot, politician and philosopher
Attributed in The Cambridge Modern History (1907), ed. Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122
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“[Translated]: The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.”
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755–1841) French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most notorious members of the National Convention …
L'arbre de la liberté ne croit qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans.
Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792.
“Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 48
“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
A phrase used in many notable speeches by King, which is actually a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.
Misattributed
Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
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“And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.”
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 13; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Sutta 62, verse 14, p. 530
Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Majjhima Nikaya (Middle Length Discourses)
“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
“Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.”
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Vairagyaśatakam 38 https://archive.org/stream/Vairagya.Satakam.of.Bhartrihari#page/n28/mode/1up <br class="br">Śatakatraya