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Quotes About Massacre

Die Straße stinkt nach Blut. Hier haben sie die Wahrheit massakriert.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.
~ Linda Hogan
It's still the tradition for various football powerhouses to pay guarantees to schools with cream-puff teams to come on over to our place and submit to massacre.
~ Frank Deford
É sagrado e justo o massacre dos opressores — sempre foi. Dize-me se nós, os pobres, não somos oprimidos pelos ricos?
~ Philip Pullman
Das Alter ist kein Kampf; es ist ein Massaker.
~ Philip Roth
Le massacre des civils français à Oued Zem9, près de Casablanca, y compris des femmes, des enfants, des malades et même des chiens et des chats, produisit une impression durable sur la population européenne d'Algérie.
~ Unknown
À la fin de 1955, les pieds-noirs étaient également las des continuelles attaques terroristes du FLN que du manque de fermeté du gouvernement français. 37 civils français, dont dix enfants, avaient été sauvagement massacrés à El Halia
~ Unknown
Soon after the June 1982 release of Metal Massacre, Lars Ulrich reported losing his virginity at a party at Dave Mustaine's house.
~ Ian Christe
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.
~ Gus Van Sant
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
~ Bob Schieffer
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Some will undoubtedly find this episode obscene. Not I! Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation." Still,
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Some will undoubtedly find this episode obscene. Not I! Massacre is obscene. Torture is obscene. Three million dead is obscene. Masturbation, even with an admittedly nonconsensual squid? Not so much. I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Whittaker Chambers, who was an American Communist spy at the time, suspected that a horrible crime against humanity was being enacted in Russia. He later wrote: "The great purge was in the most literal sense a massacre.... This great massacre, probably the greatest in history was deliberately planned and executed.... Those killed have been estimated from several hundred thousand to several million men and women. The process took about three years, 1935-1938.
~ Unknown
It was Chaos on Glitter Ice. A massacre of librarians.
~ Rachel Cohn
Goodwill to Spazzy up in gerbil heaven. Sorry sorry sorry. I stopped eating meat the day of the massacre, as penance for Spazzy. I've been a vegetarian since age six, all for the love of a gerbil.
~ Unknown
So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of "bestial machinery.
~ Iris Chang
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
~ Daniel Craig
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.9
~ Unknown
Oh dear. I have just seen Angus hunkering down in the long grass. He's stalking their poodle. I'll have to intervene to avert a massacre. Oh, it's OK, Mrs. Next Door has thrown a brick at him.
~ Louise Rennison
What Himmler planned as a gift-wrapped massacre became a siege lasting nearly a month, until at last the Germans decided to torch everything—buildings, bunkers, sewers, and all the people in them.
~ Diane Ackerman