Quotes Tagged "guts"

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which evil deeds are punished? For you, a philosopher and ethicist, an act of revenge is bad, disgraceful, unethical and illegal. But I ask: where is the punishment for evil? Who has it and grants access? The Gods, in which you do not believe? The great demiurge-creator, which you decided to replace the gods with? Or maybe the law? [...] I know what evil is afraid of. Not your ethics, Vysogota, not your preaching or moral treaties on the life of dignity. Evil is afraid of pain, mutilation, suffering and at the end of the day, death! The dog howls when it is badly wounded! Writhing on the ground and growls, watching the blood flow from its veins and arteries, seeing the bone that sticks out from a stump, watching its guts escape its open belly, feeling the cold as death is about to take them. Then and only then will evil begin to beg, 'Have mercy! I regret my sins! I'll be good, I swear! Just save me, do not let me waste away!'. Yes, hermit. That is the way to fight evil! When evil wants to harm you, inflict pain - anticipate them, it's best if evil does not expect it. But if you fail to prevent evil, if you have been hurt by evil, then avenge him! It is best when they have already forgotten, when they feel safe. Then pay them in double. In triple. An eye for an eye? No! Both eyes for an eye! A tooth for a tooth? No! All their teeth for a tooth! Repay evil! Make it wail in pain, howling until their eyes pop from their sockets. And then, you can look under your feet and boldly declare that what is there cannot endanger anyone, cannot hurt anyone. How can someone be a danger, when they have no eyes? How can someone hurt when they have no hands? They can only wait until they bleed to death.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.