“Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.”
Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
Source: Sunset
“Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.”
Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 209.
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
“The blood that is spilling is not my responsibility. It is the responsibility of Mrs. 'No.”
Leopoldo Galtieri (1926–2003) Argentine military dictator
"Quotation of the day" http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/23/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-157473.html, The New York Times (May 23, 1982)
“Freedom is based on respect, and respect is earned by the spilling of blood”
William Powell (author) book The Anarchist Cookbook
"Postscript", p. 157.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
Context: The best advice possible on any legal matter is (1) maintain your cool and temper, (2) keep your mouth shut, (3) get a good lawyer and call your family, and (4) never forget what you have been through. Allow the fear and loneliness, and hatred to build inside you, rather than diminish with time. Allow your passions to fertilize the seeds of constructive revolution. Allow your love of freedom to overcome the false values placed on human life. For the only method to communicate with the enemy is to speak on his own level, using his own terms. Freedom is based on respect, and respect is earned by the spilling of blood.
“I won't accept that another drop of blood of a Tunisian be spilled.”
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936–2019) Tunisian politician
Ordering Tunisian troops to stop firing on protesters, unless they attack. (January 2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12187084
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Variant: Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 9: A View to a Death
Peter D. Schiff (1963) American entrepreneur, economist and author
Debt is No Salvation http://www.europac.com/commentaries/debt_no_salvation
“I have forgotten much, but still remember
The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) Jamaican American writer, poet
Flame-Heart, l. 9-10