Bartolomé de las Casas Quotes

"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

Bartolomé de las Casas

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• Americans
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• We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mirror

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Star

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Always
  • Years
  • Working

• SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Help
  • Dream

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Myself
  • Breathe
  • Talk

• Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Christian
  • Military

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • Live
  • Forever

• I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

  

  Jerry Falwell

• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

  

  Epictetus

• what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright
  • Life
  • Poverty

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• "The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

  

  Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Suffering
  • Discovery
  • Americans