Quotes About Slaughter

The slaughter lasted the best part of two days. When it was over, the crusade leaders went in solemn procession to the church of the Holy Sepulchre to give thanks to God'' !!

Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: "Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell." Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

prettying you up for slaughter?" he suggests. "It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children. They don't see . . . I mean, they don't know . . ." I get knotted up in my words. "They don't know what, Katniss?" he says. "That tributes — who are the actual children involved

A self-important dictator gives permission for his subjects to blame the world's ills on those least able to defend themselves. A haughty queen gives permission to slaughter in the name of God. An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

Luxemburg saw this betrayal as evidence of the fundamental moral and political bankruptcy of the liberal establishment in a capitalist society. By the time the war was over, eleven million soldiers on all sides, most of them working-class men, were dead. Capitalists, who had grown rich from the slaughter, had nothing to fear now from the working class. They had fed them to the mouths of machine guns.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Oddly, she felt safe... as if the patient would protect her because of the vow he'd given her, and Red Sox would do the same because of his bond with the patient. Where the hell was the logic in that, she wondered. Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK. The patient leaned down to her ear. I can't see you as the cheerleader type. But you're right, we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you.

Jeez, you go rogue once and slaughter a bunch of humans after they torture your girlfriend, and suddenly you're a leaper.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course!

We have an arrangement," said I. "And further slaughter of my cohorts will cause me to doubt your sincerity.

Poland, it was said, had become a "slaughter house [where] the ghettoes are being systematically emptied of all Jews … none of those that are taken away are ever heard of again.

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.

Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.

In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever