Elizabeth Blair Lee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  • From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  • I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

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

  • Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

  • Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

  • Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

  • The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

  • It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.

  • I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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