Quotes with atonement

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• What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

  Maximilien Robespierre
  French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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• The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
  

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unreasonable
• forgiveness
• abolishes
• beginning
• necessity
• single

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