Butchery Quote by Arundhati Roy

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than…

— Shannon Hale

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men…

— H. L. Mencken

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet,…

— Camille Flammarion

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows,…

— Seneca the Younger

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

It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part,…

— Henry Stephens Salt

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have…

— Ida B. Wells

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So…

— Ernest Hemingway

If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation.…

— Joseph Goebbels