“I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.” IfsMeanEyeSpeakLanguageRaceBloodStageHairSpeechBonesSinnerAgain And AgainGrammarDictionarySkullsLinguistsScandinavians Author:Max Muller
“The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.” HumansWarNamesLinesGraceBloodSpeechListsRingsDoctrineShipsGentleBrotherhoodSacramentsCartoonAlliancesMockBaptismBannerLiturgy Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.” MenRealSoulSecretBloodSpeechMouthsCommunicateReal LifeInvisibleThanksChiefsSanctuaryInner LifeConverses Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable.” WritingYearsHas BeensLastsBloodSpeechHundredFavorsSocialismSupporter Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.” MeanTimePoliticsDecisionBloodSpeechMajorityIronGreat Day Author:Otto von Bismarck
“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected knowledge, took faith from the solid and availing stuff of our experience. Even if we believe that history is a workwheel powered by human blood -- read the speeches of Mussolini -- at least we've known the thing together. A single narrative sweep, not ten thousand wisps of disinformation. (82)” IfsBelieveHumansMatterTogetherStuffKnownBloodMinutesMissingThousandTenSpeechNarrativeTapeHelplessTextureWisps Book:Underworld: Picador Classic Source: Underworld: Picador Classic