I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it. - Mark Twain
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it. - Ali ibn Abi Talib
Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come. - Elyse Draper
life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one - Stella Adler
Life Would've Been Easier If The People Had Crushes On Jesus Christ.. Not Other People. - Cyc Jouzy
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called. - John Stuart Mill
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed. - Paul Hoffman