Mutilation Quotes

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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV.… — Ani DiFranco
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror… — Clive Barker
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade… — Abigail Van Buren
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation. — Jack Nicholson
I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the… — Christopher Lee
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… — Christopher Hitchens
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that… — George Grosz
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation.… — Sheila Jeffreys
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.… — Wally Lamb
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help. — Steven Levenkron
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. — Mo Yan
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything,… — Gloria Steinem
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu
How strange that excision â€“ female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation â€“ of little girls should revolt… — Michel Onfray
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No… — Francesca Lia Block
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation… — James Fenton
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a… — Waris Dirie

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