• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

  Leonard Cohen
  Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer 1934-2016
  - +

   0

See all quotes by Leonard Cohen

Subjects in these quotes:

1. compassion
2. verdicts
3. generals
4. triumph
5. killing
6. defamed

Similar authors

• Leonard Cohen
  Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer 16
• Art Linkletter
  Canadian-born American radio and television personality 13
• Brett Hull
  Canadian-born American former ice hockey player 8
• Agnes Martin
  Canadian-born American abstract painter 6

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. by : Leonard Cohen

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations