Crushed Quotes

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.