Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Slaughter Quotes from famous authors such as George Grosz, Nicholas Kristof, Dinaw Mengestu, Winston Churchill, Martin McGuinness. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.
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Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.
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The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it’s also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea – an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.
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Cursed be he above all others Who’s enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities.
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Once, I got slaughtered after ‘Blade Runner’ by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.
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The people of Montana want to send me to Washington – not to bring home the bacon but to slaughter the hog.
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Stage fright is not a thing about ‘Am I any good?’ It’s about ‘Am I gonna be good tonight?’ It’s a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin’, ‘Eh, we’ll go slaughter ’em,’ I’m positive something would go seriously wrong.
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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I’s Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.
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Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they’re not strict, formulaic things. ‘Coming Through Slaughter’ by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.
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A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
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Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn’t acceptable anymore.
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If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama’s much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
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When you see Bret Hart versus Steve Austin, it just seemed so much more real than Hulk Hogan versus Sgt. Slaughter.
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Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
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I’m not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.
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The film ‘The Cove’ made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.
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There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
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War in men’s eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory’s sake; – Wait a little longer.
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.