Slaughterhouses Quotes - Page 2

• It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forever, Slaughterhouse Five, Gone

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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• Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Slaughterhouse Five

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Jul 04, 2016

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• If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

  Linda McCartney

  Wall, Pain, Feel Better

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• Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

  Dean Young

  Sea, Enough, Keep Going

  Dean Young (1999). “First Course in Turbulence”

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• We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Animal, Scream

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• The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

  Renee Olstead

  Meat Industry, Sick, Saws

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• And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Bird, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

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• International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Hymns, Shepherds

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• we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

  Michael Pollan

  Philosophy, Empowering, Needs

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• Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life Changing, Slaughterhouse Five, Trying

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.19, Infobase Publishing

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• All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

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• All this happened, more or less.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos, Slaughterhouse 5

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.112, Infobase Publishing

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• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Gold Teeth, Enzymes, Crafts

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• There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

  Gary L. Francione

  Meaningful, Animal, Glasses

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.108, Columbia University Press

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• No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.

  L. M. Boyd

  Eye, Expression, Looks

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• I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with
  a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Horse, Pain, Animal

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• I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Hamburgers, Comedy, Begging

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• Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

  Sharon Gannon

  Baby, Cows, Matter

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

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• Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

  Moby

  Powerful, Nice, Animal

  VegNews Interview, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain
  and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a
  movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way
  to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the
  fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that
  fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people
  to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the
  people who are willing to do it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Hatred, Religion

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• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

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• God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

  Anne Sexton

  Sea, Despair, Body

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.101, Icaria Editorial

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• Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Humanity, Doe, Murder

  Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

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