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Quotes About Mutilated

No civilized society can thrive upon victims whose humanity has been permanently mutilated
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I don't like being permanently mutilated on Thursdays. I may add that Friday is my day for raping; and I like it quieter than this, and they enjoy it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Y cuando es de noche, siempre, una tribu de palabras mutiladas busca asilo en mi garganta para que no canten ellos, los funestos, los dueños del silencio.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
And at night, always, a tribe of mutilated words, looks for refuge in my throat.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
~ Christopher McQuarrie
Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I landed on top of him and we struggled frantically for control of the weapon. Punches were thrown. Head-butts were exchanged. Obscenities were uttered. I'd been in vicious fights before, but this was the first one to take place on top of a mutilated corpse.
~ Jeff Strand
Stripped of their property, crushed and mutilated, they still embody the nobility of Israel and the eternity of God, while their enemy—who is your enemy as well—embodies all that is most vile in man. I shall act not as their detractor, but as their melitz yosher, their intercessor.
~ Elie Wiesel
Plato writes as if the Athenian democracy had not carried out Socrates' execution, and Socrates speaks as if the Athenian democracy had not engaged in an orgy of bloody persecution of guilty and innocent alike when the Hermes statues were mutilated at the beginning of the Sicilian expedition.
~ Leo Strauss
she knew he was a prisoner and wanted to escape, she knew that love, no matter how mistreated or mutilated, always left room for hope, and that hope was her plan
~ Roberto Bolano
she knew he was a prisoner and wanted to escape, she knew that love, no matter how mistreated or mutilated, always left room for hope, and that hope was her plan (or the other way around)
~ Roberto Bolano
Let then the faithful learn to embrace him, not only for justification, but also for sanctification, as he has been given to us for both these purposes, lest they rend him asunder by their mutilated faith.
~ John Calvin
The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.
~ Anne Rice
It will be said that, although God's law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say of Scripture that it is mutilated and contaminated than to say this of God's Word. In reply, I have to say that such objectors are carrying their piety too far, and are turning religion into superstition; indeed, instead of God's Word they are beginning to worship likenesses and images, that is, paper and ink.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Our memory consists of bits and pieces which have made their imprint on our dreams and our life. All those fragments have enlightened or darkened the sky and the horizon of our existence. They are all instances that we don't want to forget or splinters that we can't obliterate. The mind collects them and by recalling, interpreting or idealizing them, the actuality very often becomes corroded. We experience then a "mutilated memory".--
~ Erik Pevernagie
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato's Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.
~ Susan Sontag
La oscuridá es la sangre de las cosas heridas. En el incierto ocaso la tarde mutilada fue unos pobres colores.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
Liebert and his team added that an offender so slick and bold and self-assured probably was practiced in committing this sort of crime and that he did so compulsively. He'd killed before and would want to kill again. There also was a good chance that he was a necrophile. If we ever found the victims, they likely would have been mutilated or dismembered.
~ Stephen G. Michaud
my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
~ Charles Bukowski
Sighing, I invite the earth to suspend them indefinitely, freezing them in battle, many once again mutilated and deformed, as solidly as Winter's iced statues littering the grounds.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don't want to.
~ Henry Rollins
Sure, a surgeon can stand to look at a mutilated body, Crawford said, crumpling his cup and stepping on the pedal of the covered wastebasket. But I don't think a doctor can stand to see a life wasted.
~ Thomas Harris
my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
~ Charles Bukowski