Carnage Quotes

• There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

  Joan Baez

  Chaos, Bloodshed

  "Thousands Protest Iraq War", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2005.

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• It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

  Liam Neeson

  Littles, Tiny, Grew Up

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• I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Thinking, Poison

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• Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

  Lord Byron

  Peace, Solitude, Mark

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Creating, Evil, Enemy

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• The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

  Kofi Annan

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Mass Destruction, Years

  Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.52, United Nations Publications

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• It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  Opening and Closing Statements at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Drinking, Men

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• After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

  George W. Bush

  Enemy, Paper, September

  George W. Bush's State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Taken, Son, Charity

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

  Lord Byron

  Military, Solitude

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• We, women of one country,
  Will be too tender of those of another country
  To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Son, Unlearn

  Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30

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• Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Fall, Player

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• I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  War, People, Grandfather

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• Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Lying, Lost

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus”, p.57

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• The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

  Rohinton Mistry

  Wounded, Humans, Left

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.366, Vintage

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• We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Men, World

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

  Bradley Whitford

  Children, Wife, Invisible

  "'West Wing' Uncensored: Aaron Sorkin, Rob Lowe, More Look Back on Early Fears, Long Hours, Contract Battles and the Real Reason for Those Departures" by Lacey Rose, Michael O'Connell and Marc Bernardin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 13, 2014.

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• i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Morning, Leaving, Path

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• When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have - and, frankly, drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, where you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times. We haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world.

  Donald Trump

  War, Sight, Isis

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Wall, Russia

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sex, Evil, World

  "Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell on Refusing to Compromise for ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ and The State of Modern Horror". Interview with Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. November 7, 2015.

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