bloodshed Quotes

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for whoever has shed his blood with me shall be my brother.”

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end.”

“He sensed the bloodshed in that cruel war, poured over the earth in innumerable streams, reaching even him, and he let it lap over him without feeling outrage or pity.”

And how dared I, knowing myself, knowing how I should be, take up an axe and shed blood! I ought to have known beforehand.... Ah, but I did know!

“A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.”