#tragedy

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#could #end #fulfilling #greek #his

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#class #european #helpless #imposed #jews

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#ensure #facing #harms #home #horrible

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

#poor #poverty #real #their #tragedy

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #comedy #commandments #extent #hilarious

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#appearing #been #begin #bore #burden

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#man #millions #statistic #tragedy

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#inside #life #lives #man #tragedy

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#conflict #different #different kinds #kinds #me

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving