A Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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After Avoid Bloodshed Goal Some Unfortunately

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Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian - Statesman
Born: March 2, 1931

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

Chief Joseph

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.

Hiromu Arakawa

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.

Kamisese Mara

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

Duong Van Minh

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Fred Hampton

I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.

Stuart Chase

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Bob Marley

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

Charles Dickens

I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.

Kamisese Mara

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

Carl von Clausewitz

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Ratan Tata

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

Conan O'Brien

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

Ai Weiwei

There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

Joan Baez

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