“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.” PeopleMadeBlackGrowthPoorBloodCapitalismPaidFortuneEnormousIndianBlack PeoplePoor PeopleFrontiers Author:Peter Matthiessen
“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.” YearsHumansHas BeensFatherNationsGenerationsBloodCivilizationYears AgoPaidGrantedDawnOur FatherPriceHuman Civilization Author:Menachem Begin
“This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.” MenBloodGloryPaidHeavyReckoning Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain
“So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.” WorldLastsEnergyBloodFamePaidDebt Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.” WorldGivingWellsHeartEnoughLastsSpiritFeltEducationPovertyBloodYouthCollegeBrokenWallArmsHighestPaidHungerDisappointmentFedsSweatCentsCrushedCleanlinessLaundryFeesGive And TakeTuitionWell DressedFrigidUnderpaid Author:Anzia Yezierska
“Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so angry with their governments. Because they want more, much more! They couldn't care less that their benefits, salaries and other privileges, have been, for decades and centuries 'subsidized' by the plunder of other parts of the planet; that they are paid for by blood.” WantHas BeensGovernmentCareSocialDealsBloodCenturyPlanetsCitizensBenefitsPaidAngryMajorityPrivilegeDecadesUnhappyOverwhelmingSalaryPlunder Author:Andre Vltchek
“Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people: as long as the French people had it they weren't doing a thing that is being done now.” PeopleLongDoneNamesBlackPresidentMillionsBloodPaidIntelligentBlack PeopleEducateInkBeing DoneGuinea Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“Someone has to really like you to go out there and physically get your CD. Shout out to everybody who actually paid for the CD. A lot of people don't realize that's how we live, that's our job. When we people take music from us, that's just like taking food off of our table and it's not cool. It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into the music and those lyrics. To have people just go and steal it, it doesn't feel well.” PeopleFeelsWellsJobsRealizingBloodTearsLike YouPaidTablesStealingSweatCdsSweat And TearsShout OutBlood Sweat And TearsReally Like You Author:Ginuwine
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.” IfsThinkingLifeMadeEndsFeelingsDreamSeemsNightStrongHoursAttentionTakenBloodSubjectsReturnPaidContraryFleshImpressionGrantedBotherWakingIgnoredVagueUnnoticedTaken For GrantedFlesh And Blood Author:Boris Pasternak