Quotes About Carnage

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives become apparent.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

torn limb from limb by vicious man-eating guard dogs.

People like death and mayhem.

The Armenian genocide, the massacres of the Pontic Greeks and the agreed 'exchanges' of Greek and Turkish populations after the sack of Smyrna illustrated with a terrible clarity the truth of the Archbishop of Aleppo's warning: when a multi-ethnic empire mutated into a nation state, the result could only be carnage. It was as if, for the sake of a spuriously modern uniformity, the basest instincts of ordinary men were unleashed in a kind of tribal bloodletting.

bloodied, broken corpse

For kilometres on end the road was totally jammed with vehicles drawn up three or four abreast - petrol tankers, ammunition trucks, teams of horses,ambulances. It was impossible to move forwards or back. Russian combat aircraft now arrived in wave after wave, and threw bombs into that unprotected, inextricable mass. This is what hell must be like.

as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.

Los dos ejércitos entrechocaron con un estruendo ensordecedor. Picas entrecruzadas con lanzas, martillos contra escudos, espadas contra yelmos, mientras por encima revoloteaban los hambrientos cuervos rapaces soltando sus ásperos graznidos, en un frenesí desatado por el olor de la carne fresca.

Oromis twisted Eragon's hands around again and gestured at his calluses. You now have the hands of a warrior, Eragon. Take care they do not become the hands of a man who revels in the carnage of war.

Despite the far greater carnage between 1939 and 1945, seventy years later historians rarely write of the political or strategic futility of the Second World War as they so often do of the First. Apparently, losing sixty million for a subsequent general seventy-year peace and the end of nightmarish ideologies was defensible, while losing fifteen to twenty million for a twenty-one-year hiatus was sometimes not.

The world was carnage. You either suffered it or inflicted it.

They had an enemy. They were an enemy. The world was carnage. You either suffered it or inflicted it.

GMDC share fast downward journey indicates that stock market is on carnage. No business channel is showing that perhaps 90% of the traders have quit the capital market. This share is reflection of 2008 market crash

Govt PSU shares have got the maximum beatings and gone down ruthlessly since Oct'21 during this stock market carnage and this clearly shows that this fall is fishy and big corporates along with govt politicians and news media are playing game plan to malign the image of PSUs to promote privatization and loot public investors money

No stock market today's carnage news is trending on twitter, it means agencies have not been paid money to create panic in public through # trends and this also means further downfall is on cards tomorrow

People might have noticed that there is not a single tweet on the stock market carnage in May because brokers do not want people to sell out of panic and they could make undue profits out of it and youtubers continue to advise or misguide public to buy for own payments from brokerage houses

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?