Slaughterhouses Quotes

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.”

— Anonymous

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

— Theodor Adorno

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

— Paul McCartney

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

— Og Mandino

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

— Howard Lyman

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

— Chicken John

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

— Jami Attenberg

It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way…

— Steve-O

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying.…

— Anonymous

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from…

— Peter Singer

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible…

— Edward Abbey

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

— Octave Mirbeau

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

— Ellen DeGeneres

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By…

— Alan Moore

“I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.…

— Og Mandino

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair……

— Dan Simmons

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man…

— Leo Tolstoy

My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way…

— Russell Simmons

Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory…

— Sharon Gannon

The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible. I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind…

— Henri La Fontaine

“Illegal aliens are often preferred, but poor recent immigrants who do not speak English are also desirable employees. By the standards of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse;…

— Zack de la Rocha

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all…

— Michael Dirda

If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of…

— Bruce Friedrich

Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires,…

— Bruce Friedrich

I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a…

— Peter Burwash

Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that…

— Jurgen Graf

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

— Linda McCartney

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

— Jerry Garcia

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

— Leo Tolstoy

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

— Bruce Friedrich

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have…

— Ingrid Newkirk

I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in…

— Joe Budden

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

— Gary Yourofsky