Slaughter Quotes - Page 5

• . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

  Andrew Lang

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Animal, Suffering, Goes On

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• 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.

  Alice Corbin Henderson

  War, Support, United States

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• 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.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  War, World, Saving

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• Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

  Karl Marx

  War, Hero, Debt

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• We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!

  Buckethead

  Sports, Animal, What If

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• ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Organization, Vision

  Barack Obama's speech on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

  Jello Biafra

  Mean, Hands, Should Have

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002 By Nardwuar". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• The Roman arena was technically a level playing field. But on one side were the lions with all the weapons, and on the other the Christians with all the blood. That's not a level playing field. That's a slaughter. And so is putting people into the economy without equipping them with capital, while equipping a tiny handful of people with hundreds and thousands of times more than they can use.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Christian, Blood, People

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• It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Years

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• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.

  Patrick Cockburn

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• I love my country, By which I mean, I am indebted joyfully, To all the people throughout its history, Who have fought the government to make right, Where so many cunning sons and daughters, Our foremothers and forefathers, Came singing through slaughter, Came through hell and high water, So that we could stand here, And behold breathlessly the sight, How a raging river of tears, Cut a grand canyon of light... Why can't all decent men and women, Call themselves feminists? Out of respect, For those who fought for this...

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Daughter, Mean

  "Song: Grand Canyon (Educated Guess)". January 20, 2004.

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• That makes it even more offensive to me that she's interested in our band and she did something for Slaughter.

  Eddie Vedder

  Band, Offensive

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• Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Men, Poison

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

  Harry Patch

  War, Humans, Human Beings

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• The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

  Peter Mayle

  Meat, Cooks

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• To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws

  Paul Watson

  Beautiful, Marine, Teeth

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• There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

  Carolyn Forche

  Choices, Cyclones, World

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• It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blood, Hands, Iron

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• There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Support, Helping, Barbarism

  "The Day Carlos Fuentes Took to Twitter". mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Iraq, Hatred, Violence

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• So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

  General Butt Naked

  Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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• The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Goes On, Method

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.

  George Grosz

  War, Years, Voice

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

  Henry Sidgwick

  Self, Painful, Natural

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