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
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.
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
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called. - John Stuart Mill
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
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