Bloodletting Quotes:

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a ***** affront. It puts me off my feed.

- Al Swearengen

topic: Affront, Bloodletting

We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

- Naz?m Hikmet

topic: Goal, Bloodletting

We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

- Friedrich Kellner

topic: Monsters, Deeds, Lasts, Bloodletting

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Power, Medicine, Political, Bloodletting

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

- Red Smith

topic: Writing, Typewriters, Veins, Bloodletting, Droplets

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Cities, Years, Rebuilding, Pseudoscience, City Planning

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

- Nellie L. McClung

topic: Children, War, Blow, Bloodletting

My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

topic: Tanks, Rolling, Would Be, Bloodletting

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Age, Looks, Way, Bloodletting

Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: War, Moving, Army, Crusades, Recruit