Bloody Hands Quotes:

Gods have bloody hands.

- Janet Morris

topic: God, Hands, Bloody, Bloody Hands

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.300

topic: Heart, Hands, Bloody, Bloody Hands

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

- John Milton

topic: Hate, Winning, Hands, Bloody Hands

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

- George Santayana

topic: Life, Kindness, Philosophy, Aim Of Life, Bloody Hands

When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must forever be bloody hands, for this is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.

- Revilo P. Oliver

topic: Fashion, Strong, Men, Bloody Hands, Brotherhood And Peace

Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.3068, Oxford University Press

topic: War, Book, Hands, Bloody Hands