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"O, I am slain!" »William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills him behind the curtain.
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"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help." »Homer
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"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again" »Rudyard Kipling
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"Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again!" »Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
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"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail." »Benjamin Franklin
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