Ordering Tunisian troops to stop firing on protesters, unless they attack. (January 2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12187084
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
June 2, 2005, following the assassination of colleague Samir Kassir.
Attributed
“Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.”
Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
“The blood that is spilling is not my responsibility. It is the responsibility of Mrs. 'No.”
"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”
"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.
The House with the Mezzanine (1896)
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”
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
“I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”
To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography http://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392 (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.
1780s
Context: Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
"Still Don't Give A Fuck" (Track 20).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)
