the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen…

I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit.…

— John Lennon

Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human…

— Daniel Horan

“reforms to Christmas behaviors were in part driven by fear of class conflict and a desire to tame customs that, despite their connection to…

— Gerry Bowler

“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and…

— Baron D'Holbach

“First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic criminal activities. That's why the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling…

— Steven Pinker

This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that…

— Barack Obama

“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799) Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the…

— Pythagoras

“The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans…

— Milan Kundera

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their…

— Jacob Bronowski

“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

— Ed Markey

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The…

— Stephen Hunter