It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say o...f crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How I envy you death; what could death bring,... more black, more set with sparks to slay, to affright, than the memory of those first violets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She sings of a sword so white, so luminous, that its own light... alone must slay; she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword, and I creep away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you feed a thousand people you are a nice man with suspicious motives. If you kill a thousand you are a hero. Continue to get t...hem killed by the thousands and you are a great conqueror than which nothing on earth is greater. Oppress them and you are a great ruler. Rob them by law and they are proud and happy if you let them glimpse you occasionally surrounded by the riches that you have trampled out of their hides. You are truly divine if you meet their weakness with the sword to slay and the dogs to tear. The only time you run great risk is when you serve them. The most repulsive thing to all men is gratitude. Men give up property, freedom and even life before they will have the obligation laid on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »