{"quotes":[{"text":"N O T H I N GI would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about. That can’t be done in Kashmir. It’s not sophisticated, what happens here. There’s too much blood for good literature.Q 1: Why is it not sophisticated?Q 2: What is the acceptable amount of blood for good literature?Y.","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["blood","bloodshed","kashmir"],"id":7154,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"},{"text":"All bombing is terrorism.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bloodshed","bombing","bombs","fear","genocide","murder","peace","peace-making","peaceful","peacemakers","soldiers","terror","terrorism","war","world-peace"],"id":23721,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing. We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn’t complete yet.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["bloodshed","murder","thirsty"],"id":159036,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"... The reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["bloodshed","oppression","religion"],"id":171924,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"Guy of Gisborne: “I understand the king is winning, thanks be to God.” Robin Hood: “He’s killing more people.”Gisborne: “Is that not winning?”Robin: “Show me an argument ever settled with bloodshed, and then I’ll call it winning.","author":"BBC Robin Hood","tags":["bloodshed","peace","robin-hood-bbc","war","winning-and-losing"],"id":180349,"author_id":"BBC+Robin+Hood"},{"text":"If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["activists","angel","angels","art","art","art-teacher","art-teachers","art-world","artistic","artists","beautiful-colors","bloodshed","bridges","bridges-not-walls","bridges-to-peace","build","change","change-the-world","child","children","corrupt","corruption","create","creativity","dangerous","decorate","devil","devils","division","dream","earth","election","errors","evil","evolution","fear","greed","greedy","grow","heart","heart-driven","humanitarians","hunger","imagination","imagine","justice","kids","leader","leader","leaders","leadership","love","memory","mistakes","past","peace","peace-maker","peace-on-earth","peacemakers","play","politics","poverty","rainbow-world","right","social-change","starvation","suzy-kassem","terror","traits-leader","truth","united","unity","vanish","voting","walls","war","war-instigator","wars","world-earth","world-peace"],"id":191256,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.","author":"Isaac Bashevis Singer","tags":["animals-rights","bloodshed","caring-for-others","justice","peace"],"id":290424,"author_id":"Isaac+Bashevis+Singer"},{"text":"We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom.","author":"Mark Knopfler","tags":["bloodshed","cruelty","romance","war"],"id":290895,"author_id":"Mark+Knopfler"},{"text":"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.","author":"Jhumpa Lahiri","tags":["bloodshed","desensitized","political-upheaval","tragedy"],"id":324739,"author_id":"Jhumpa+Lahiri"},{"text":"Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross, all the way down to the depths of hell. He who knew not sin took on our sin so that we might be free of it. God still stoops, in your life and mine, condescends. “Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” he asked his disciples, before his way up Golgotha. Our answer is an obvious, “No!” His cup is not only the cup of crucifixion and death, it is the bloody, bloody cup that one must drink if one is going to get mixed up in us. Any God who would wander into the human condition, any God who has this thirst to pursue us, had better not be too put off by pain, for that's the way we tend to treat our saviors. Any God who tries to love us had better be ready to die for it. As Chesterton writes, “Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate … Real love has always ended in bloodshed.","author":"William H. Willimon","tags":["bloodshed","cross","crucifixion","divine-condescension","easter","good-friday","incarnation","jesus-christ","love","salvation","violence"],"id":340463,"author_id":"William+H.+Willimon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}