Definition of Bloodshed

Bloodshed

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

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Bloodshed Quotations

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
Eduard Shevardnadze

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Paul Harris

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
Ginny B. Waite

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
Eduard Shevardnadze

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
Eduard Shevardnadze

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
Kamisese Mara

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
Nursultan Nazarbayev

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
Mohammed Omar

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Padraic Pearse

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
Duong Van Minh

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown

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Bloodshed Translations

bloodshed in Dutch is bloedvergieten
bloodshed in Latin is cruor
bloodshed in Spanish is derramamiento de sangre
bloodshed in Swedish is blodutgjutelse

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