“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”
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“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.”
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.”
“Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.”
“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”
“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.”
“Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.”
“In every death, a busy world comes to an end.”
“For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.”
“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.”
“For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.”
“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”
“I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.”
“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”
“Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”