Quotes about Blood Money

Muhammad

O you who believe! retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.

This sura on retaliation for murder is behind the Saudi Arabian law which allows the male relative of a murder victim to personally wield the sword in the beheading of the murderer.

Eric Ambler

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Ted Turner

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

Moshe Dayan

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

Alfred the Great

If a man be slain, we estimate all equally dear, English and Danish, at 8 half marks of pure gold

Murder was then punishable by paying a fine to the relatives of the deceased to compensate for his “value.” However, were all people to be valued alike? Alfred said, “Yes,” and the fine was fixed regardless of the ethnicity of the victim.

Norman Mailer

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Pope Francis

Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade.

Jeff Duncan

The Obama administration, seemingly without any concern or worry, funneled money around U.S. law through foreign central banks to provide a state sponsor of terrorism with $400 million in blood money for American hostages.

Blood Money Quotes