A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
No, I was just wondering who you killed to reclaim your health. (Wulf) I’m sure the cows you eat aren’t exactly thrilled… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“It’s like a man in the trenches again: he doesn’t know any more why he should go on living, because if he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it… — Kirby Page Copy Share Image
Might let him take it home and slaughter that/ He got friends for all of my friends/ They ain't leaving 'till we… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous -… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
