Mutilate the meanings, so they're easy to deny.

We mutilate the meanings, so they are easy to deny.

— Smashing Pumpkins

How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering,

— Chuck Schuldiner

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

— Arthur Rimbaud

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way…

— Christina Ricci

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves,…

— Tori Amos

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

— Primo Levi

“The pictures are bound to mutilate the words. Those words weren't meant to have pictures with them!”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

— Eve Ensler

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

— Warren Beatty

“Go forth and mutilate fish.”

— Janice Hardy

You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down. -Savitar

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

— Vivian Stanshall

Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try…

— Maureen Duffy

“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they…

— Tadeusz Rózewicz

“Men do not become what by nature they are meant to be, but what society makes them... generous feelings... are, as it were, shrunk…

— Elbridge Colby