Bloodletting Quotes

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. - Lee Iacocca

We hope very much for the sake of the Russian republic and the Chechen people that there will be no return to the bloodletting. - Nicholas Burns

We have never been supporters of war, terrorism or bloodletting. Instead it is the Israeli occupation that waged all forms of terrorism against our people in chasing them out of their homeland, besieging it and starving it. - Ismail Haniya

The attack in Haifa is yet another Palestinian bloodletting of innocent Israeli civilians. Israel will not tolerate this terror, and will continue to take the necessary steps to eradicate it. - David Baker

Specter wants to hold hearings that will withstand the test of time, not [be] someone who wants to carry an ideological point to an extreme. He will be very receptive to deep, probing questions from Democratic colleagues. The hearings might get testy, but it would have been a bloodletting with a different chair. - Jonathan Turley

So far, Adidas has said that it will maintain all of its current offices and there would not be any wholesales bloodletting in the workforce... We'll have to wait and see how the synergies are achieved. - Tom Doyle

No one wants to call the attention of the public to bloodletting and heroism and the horrifying character of combat. What situation can be imagined that would promote the war and not remind people of its ambivalence? - Richard Kohn

It was believed that [bloodletting] was a very important part of healing. - Marcia Leiter

It is a day we remember systematic slaughter of over a million of our innocent fellow Rwandans, an orgy of bloodletting unprecedented in the history of our nation. - Paul Kagame

For every year of greatness there is usually three years of preparation. We have to go through the battlefields of Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Louisville to get to where we need to go. We'll take casualties and bloodlettings along the way, but we'll get there faster than if we take the high road. - Howard Schnellenberger