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Chief Powhatan

Chief Powhatan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?”
-- Chief Powhatan

Source : Address to Captain John Smith, delivered in 1609

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“Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?”
-- Chief Powhatan

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“My daughter speaks with a wisdom beyond her years. We have all come here with anger in our hearts but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward if there is to be more killing it will not start with me.”
-- Chief Powhatan

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“Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."”
“But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.”
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.”
“Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.”
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

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