Slaughter Quotes - Page 9

• Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

  Melina Marchetta

  Children, Mean, People

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• When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cows, Helping, Butchers

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.224, Macmillan

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• Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Men, Purple

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Animal, Choices

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• You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Names, Bird, Purpose

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• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Ignorance, Reality, Thinking

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• When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Loneliness

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• Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Vegetables, Water

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• 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 my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Cities, Play, People

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• It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

  Paul McCartney

  Whales, Ends, Magnificent

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• Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

  Monica Drake

  Jesus, Lambs, Lasts

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.192, Hawthorne Books

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• More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

  Aaron Huey

  Children, War, Iraq

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• As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, House, Battlefields

  Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Mean, Men

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Real, Mistake

  "Adjusting Though Reflex: Romancing Zen". Book by Rodger Hyodo, p. 76, 2010.

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• Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

  T. H. White

  Men, Soon Enough, Equal

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

  Chris Bohjalian

  War, Reality, America

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Taken, Fire

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• 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 the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

  Farley Mowat

  Animal, Men, Quality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Fire, Water, Return

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.817, Wordsworth Editions

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• We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and kill more animals in laboratories in the hopes of creating drugs to enable us to continue with our animal-abusive lifestyle! Few of us look to the future (i.e., to our parents and grandparents), see the effects of an omnivorous lifestyle, and opt out of it before it makes us sick.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Creating, Sick

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, People, Giving

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I feel very strongly, we've got to give animals a good life. I've worked really hard improving slaughter plants and animal handling and transport. And people have said to me, why don't you work on improving conditions on pig farms? And basically, to be effective on making real change out there on the ground, you can only work on so many things. You know, you get too distributed, you're not effective.

  Temple Grandin

  Good Life, Real, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Love is letting him win even though you know you could slaughter him.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Winning, Love Is, Knows

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