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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

  Nicolas Chamfort

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

  Frederick Douglass

  Long, Rose, Forever

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

  Francis Parkman

  Civilization, Neglected, Scorned

  Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.44

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• God loves us so much that he crushed his Son so that we might be his and that this love isn't based on our worthiness or performance. His love doesn't fluctuate from day-to-day. It was settled the moment he set it upon you before the foundation of the world.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Son, Love Is, Foundation

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

  Francois Rabelais

  Art, War, Military

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• Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Snakes, Records

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Christian, Names, Tyrants

  "Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Book by Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap, p. 255, 2005.

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• If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

  Jason Diamond

  Song, Heart, Bleeding

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

  Sam Altman

  Remember, Competitors, Dies

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• You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.

  Joy Williams

  Believe, Eye, Animal

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.1, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Solitude, Feelings

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Mean, Yesterday

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• I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

  Melody Beattie

  Hurt, People, Defense

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.4, Hazelden Publishing

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• He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

  Lech Walesa

  Air, Solidarity

  1983 Nobel peace prize lecture, read on his behalf,11 Dec.

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• [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

  Olive Schreiner

  Moving, School, Space

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Trying, Identity

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• ...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Teaching, Humility, Order

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• Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Confused, People, Pits

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• And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Organization, Long, Individuality

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Opinion, Servant

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• If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Antidote, Ifs

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• The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

  Roger Housden

  Heart, Moments, Harvest

  Roger Housden (2007). “Ten Poems to Change Your Life”, p.28, Harmony

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• The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Greatness, Flames, Oil

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• An Animated Cartoon Theology:
  1. People are animals.
  2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
  3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
  4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
  5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
  6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
  7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Pain, Smart, Animal

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• Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

  Mina Loy

  Gertrude, Research, Matter

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