Slaughter Quotes

220 Slaughter quotes by 167 unique authors

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French,… — Henry Walter Bates
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone;… — Michel Foucault
You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me… — Standing Bear
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? — William Shakespeare
Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. — William Shakespeare
I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal… — Cloris Leachman
Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly.… — Bruce Friedrich
If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much,… — Thomas Aquinas
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to… — Erasmus Darwin
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million… — Walter E. Williams
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the… — Ronald Reagan
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying… — Lierre Keith
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the… — Henry Adams
I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing… — Winston Churchill
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
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 the rest of… — Tom Hiddleston
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. — Paul McCartney
There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish. — Peter Singer
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus
To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and… — Tom Vilsack
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. — George Washington
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many… — Ida B. Wells
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing… — Farley Mowat
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! — Rudyard Kipling

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