The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute…

“with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.”

— Allen Ginsberg

I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.

— Jaime Harrison

“He glanced first at me, and then at his devastated flowerbed; all plowed up and butchered, like a Ripper victim- like Pearly Poll, lying…

— Russell Brand

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The Spanish had butchered the Indians with a clean conscience because they were confident that they knew what a normal human being was. Their…

— Alain de Botton

“Quinn's mother knew what to do she was a librarian. She'd done research. She skinned him and dressed him out, hung him in the…

— Michele Huneven

“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?”

— Rick Yancey

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“I met a guy who had an interesting job. He was a meat cutter, or a meat slicer, something like that. I probably butchered…

— Jarod Kintz

“Kiriwar: "I thought I smelled shit stinking up the hallway." Shiki: "I butchered a hyena...maybe that's why. That's what you do to a dog…

— Suguro Chayamachi

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But…

— Bertolt Brecht

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

— Romain Rolland

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

— Annie Besant

Language is butchered by the media

— Don Watson

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee