Quotes About Butchery

#1. The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

Karin Slaughter

#2. Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

Trevanian

#3. The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Ida B. Wells

#4. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

Seneca The Younger

#7. You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!

Charles De Coster

#8. Humans, so easily electrified by the snap, crackle, pop of blood, brutality, and butchery.

Artemis Crow

#9. The most common lesson of history is that the butchery of one mass of people by another is, in the minds of the butchers, sanctioned by their god.

Dee Hock

#10. The petty-minded fools here think surgery and butchery are the same thing.

Seanan McGuire

#11. World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

John Bunyan

#13. ... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live.

V.S. Naipaul

#14. It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

George R R Martin

#15. This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery.

George R R Martin

#16. Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

Camille Paglia

#17. Within obsession lies madness and genius

Andy Merrick

#18. Alchemists turned into chemists
when they stopped keeping secrets.

Eric S. Raymond

#19. I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud ... that was pretty cool.

Eleanor Mondale

#20. I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Mohsin Hamid

#21. When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Tim Berners-Lee