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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone...

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Quote by Franz Liszt about life, bitter, sacrifice, faith

It's got the hallmark of al-Qaida and Zarqawi all over it - two independent attacks within four minutes of one another widely separated using suicide bombers.

Quote by John Abizaid

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Quote by John Adams about democracy

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, ...

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Quote by John Adams about democracy

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Quote by Aristotel about cowardice, death

Thirty wretched years were nothing but darkness and pain, ...

Thirty wretched years were nothing but darkness and pain, and I had the urge to commit suicide and be done with it all.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about pain, nothing

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and...

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about law

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates...

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about union, state

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social...

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control

Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration...

Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration to the old, sick and vulnerable that others consider their lives worthless.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about old, olderness

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about wife, man, happiness, death, end, good, good luck, love, people

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a...

Quote by Camille Paglia about liberty, democracy, thinking, state, use

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is...

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, press

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about reason, good, good luck

Political courage is not political suicide.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about courage

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Quote by Antonio Porchia about truth

A weak world a weak world. the rebellion is in me I withwraw into hell. in the hell of my own words. here, the last of the possible adventures which I can support without tearing myself apart, without breaking, without screaming. but I...

Quote by Angela Marinescu about world, hell

Laziness is a gentle suicide.

Laziness is a gentle suicide.

Quote by Nicolae Iorga about laziness

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