"The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Nice Quotes #Loss Quotes #History Quotes

“You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.”

Source : Anna Maxted (2014). “Being Committed”, p.357, Random House
“I spent 24 and a half years in prison”
“Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.”
“In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'”
“Get an education because no one can take that away from you.”
“Age doesn't make a man.”

Source : Song: Vance
“Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.37, Open Road Media
“The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .”

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