Simon Bolivar Quotes

Our vengeance shall rival Spanish ferocity. Our goodwill is at last exhausted; and, since our oppressors compel us to mortal warfare, they shall disappear from America and our land shall be purged of the monsters that infest it. Our hate shall be inexorable and our war shall be to the death.

Intolerance breeds injustice. Injustice invariably leads to rebellion and retaliation, and these will lead to escalation on the part of both making reconciliation almost impossible

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

If you'd like to know how the Serbs in my district feel about everything, Mr. President, I can tell you there's not a one of them who wouldn't hang you from the nearest lamppost if they had the chance.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

Even the bones of their dead should be dug up and scattered.

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.

All right, come on in! We’ll meet you man to man. You will kill us, but you will pay for it.

I want no peace till the Indians suffer more.

Violence breeds counter-violence.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

I have no enemies, father. I have had them all shot.

The English will never cut each other's throats to the extent that we desire.

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

The Spaniards have served us with rapine and death. They have violated the sacred rights of human beings, violated capitulations and the most solemn treaties; committed, in fact, every crime. They have reduced the Republic of Venezuela to the most frightful desolation. Thus, then, justice demands vengeance and necessity obliges us to take it

Hatred will only breed hatred.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

In violence, we forget who we are.