Temple Grandin Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“People pitied only what they could easily slaughter.”

— C.J. Hill

“It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them: Sparta, Rome, The Knights of Europe, the Samurai... They worshipped…

— Han from Enter the Dragon

“The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the assault of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by…

— Farley Mowat

“The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.”

— Bryant McGill

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

“Who does not have a slaughter in their conscience? Man's history is just an endless list of atrocities and we're not through with it.…

— Matz

“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed…

— James Baldwin

“Think of this: If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no…

— Jasper Fforde

“Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.”

— Ilona Andrews