Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
— John Adams
Beautiful Commit Suicide quotations
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die.
" "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.
When I was 8 years old, I became depressed.
I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live.
If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?
Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts.
If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide
What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide.
I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'.
Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.
The absurd man will not commit suicide;
he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion.
Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying.
I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her
The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide;
it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.