„Hatred is like a Hydra - the more heads one chops off, the stronger it grows.“

„I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!"
"If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Prince

Zdroj: Clockwork Prince

„She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.“

—  Frank Miller, kniha The Big Fat Kill

Zdroj: The Big Fat Kill

„The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.“

—  Ha Jin Chinese-American novelist, short story writer and poet 1956

„He snorted. “He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero.” None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.“

—  Naomi Novik, kniha Uprooted

Zdroj: Uprooted

„Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord, O Nanak, that human body, in which there is no pain of separation from the Lord-take that body and burn it.“

—  Guru Angad Dev The second Guru of Sikhism 1504 - 1552

Guru Granth Sahib p. 89

„The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.“

—  Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941

„It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.“

—  Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

„Well, I've got a colour telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.“

—  Syd Barrett English musician 1946 - 2006

In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out

„Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.“

—  Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

„Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators… The land is one organism.“

—  Aldo Leopold American writer and scientist 1887 - 1948

"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s
Kontext: Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

„The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.“

—  Henry Miller, kniha Sexus

The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 14. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 339)

„I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need.“

—  Auguste Rodin French sculptor 1840 - 1917

Attributed to Rodin in: Naum Ya. Vilenkin (1958). Stories about Sets, p. 125
1950s-1990s

„One can cut off the head of an individual, but it is not possible to cut off the head of an economic law.“

—  Robert Hunter (author) American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874 - 1942

Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Kontext: No one sees more clearly than the socialist that nothing could prove more disastrous to the democratic cause than to have the present class conflict break into a civil war. If such a war becomes necessary, it will be in spite of the organized socialists, who, in every country of the world, not only seek to avoid, but actually condemn, riotous, tempestuous, and violent measures. Such measures do not fit into their philosophy, which sees, as the cause of our present intolerable social wrongs, not the malevolence of individuals or of classes, but the workings of certain economic laws. One can cut off the head of an individual, but it is not possible to cut off the head of an economic law. From the beginning of the modern socialist movement, this has been perfectly clear to the socialist, whose philosophy has taught him that appeals to violence tend, as Engels has pointed out, to obscure the understanding of the real development of things.

p.xi

„Our riches, being in our brains, die with us… Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.“

—  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791

„I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Bones

Zdroj: City of Bones

„The historical Muhammad was the savage leader of a gang of robbers from Medina. Without scruples they looted, raped and murdered. The sources describe orgies of savagery where hundreds of people’s throats were cut, hands and feet chopped off, eyes cut out, entire tribes massacred. An example is the extinction of the jewish Kurayza tribe in Medina in 627. One of those who chopped off their heads was Muhammad. The women and children were sold as slaves. Confronted with the lunacy of Islamic terrorists today, it is not hard to find out where the lunacy comes from.“

—  Geert Wilders Dutch politician 1963

"Time To Unmask Muhammad", The Brussels Journal (30 March 2011) http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4714
2010s

„Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is fascist and it's violent and we've had enough! They're chopping our soldiers' heads off. This is Islam. That's what we've seen today. They've cut off one of our army's heads off on the streets of London. Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion of peace. It's not. It never has been. What you saw today is Islam. Everyone's had enough. There has to be a reaction, for the government to listen, for the police to listen, to understand how angry this British public are.“

—  Tommy Robinson English right-wing activist 1982

"Anti-Muslim reprisals after Woolwich attack", by Ben Quinn and Conal Urquhart, The Guardian (23 May 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-anti-muslim-reprisals
2013

„It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it“

—  Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

„People sometimes forget about their national tasks; but such peoples perish, they turn into land, into fertilizer, on which other, stronger nations grow and grow stronger.“

—  Pyotr Stolypin Russian politician 1862 - 1911

May 5, 1908; The State Duma; P. A. Stolypin's speech about Finland.
Zdroj: https://ru.citaty.net/tsitaty/484174-piotr-arkadevich-stolypin-narody-zabyvaiut-inogda-o-svoikh-natsionalnykh-zadacha/
Zdroj: https://histrf.ru/lichnosti/biografii/p/stolypin-pietr-arkad-ievich
Zdroj: http://www.myshared.ru/slide/138476/
Zdroj: https://politus.ru/v-rossii/937-citaty-pastolypina.html
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