Head Wounds Sustained

Famous quotes containing the words head, wounds and/or sustained:

“A king’s head is solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon’s hand;
Better that they were not touched at all.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for- the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)