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Quotes About Slaughter

I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.
~ Temple Grandin
All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.
~ Alec Baldwin
There hath been a slaughter for the sacrifice And slaying for the meat, but henceforth none Shall spill the blood of life, nor taste of flesh, Seeing that knowledge grows, and life is one, And mercy cometh to the merciful.
~ Edwin Arnold
one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
~ Paul Watson
Each of the five tribes claims to have been the victorious attacker. Each recalls the slaughter with relish. Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unholy practices carried on in the city. Evil must be cleansed with blood, they say. On that day the blood ran like water, so afterwards it must have been very clean.
~ Margaret Atwood
Had I ever been that powerful creature who so dazzled many that he could slaughter a gathering of mortals and no one would dare accuse save in whispers?
~ Anne Rice
Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST! And that thought just cracked me up.] It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals.
~ Sherman Alexie
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No, I was just wondering who you killed to reclaim your health. (Wulf) I'm sure the cows you eat aren't exactly thrilled by their slaughter either. (Urian) They're not people. (Wulf) In case you haven't noticed, Dark-Hunter, there are a lot of people out there who aren't human either. (Urian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's what made her the warrior she is. She hates all humans for their cruelty, just as I do. They are all animals fit for nothing but slaughter, and I enjoy wholeheartedly playing the butcher. (Zephyra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
the very people who clamor the loudest about animal suffering won't actually pay for meat that has been ethically slaughtered.
~ John Durant
O where does he stalk like a horse in pastures very far afield? I cannot hear him, and silence writes more terrible things than he can ever deny. Is there a suspicion the battle is lost? Certainly he killed me fourteen nights in succession. To rise again from such slaughter Messiah must indeed become a woman. He said this absence was the mere mechanics of the thing. But It is not the same.
~ Elizabeth Smart
The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
it saves bother to get an animal to walk to the slaughterhouse rather than having to drag it there. And
~ Sapper
When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms.
~ Sinclair Lewis
His tears were not for Himself, though He well knew whither His feet were tending. Before Him lay Gethsemane, the scene of His approaching agony. The sheep gate also was in sight, through which for centuries the victims for sacrifice had been led, and which was to open for Him when He should be "brought as a lamb to the slaughter." 4 Not far distant was Calvary, the place of crucifixion.
~ Ellen G. White
Pity they didn't devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.
~ banks iain m iii
The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.
~ Barack Obama
war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious. But
~ George Orwell
if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
~ George Washington
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
~ Karl Liebknecht
That's great, Jean. I'm not just exiled; I'm being plumped up for slaughter.
~ Scott Lynch
But when dawn broke and day crept in over each empty, blood-spattered bench, the floor of the mead-hall where they had feasted would be slick with slaughter. And so they died, faithful retainers, and my following dwindled.
~ Seamus Heaney