#massacre

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#lie #massacre #men #public #requires

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands? ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #heaven #hope #humanity #massacre

Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns -- or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#gun-control #gun-laws #gun-owners #gun-violence #guns

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. ↗

— Pythagoras

#massacre #thought-provoking #love

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#difficulty #getting #government #honest #honest truth

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#afterwards #assassination #did #especially #history

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #long #long run #massacre #more

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. ↗

— Paul Valery

#know #massacre #other #people #profit

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#belgium #children #democratic #destruction #districts

Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he knew something about warfare, having served under General Pope in his long and futile struggle against General Stonewall Jackson. Those men were fighters who would face the enemy till the last bullet was fired, but neither would participate in such a slaughter. Reed had had his troops in position. He was quite prepared to rush in for the kill, and he had positioned himself so that he would be in the vanguard when his men made their charge against the guns of the young braves threatening the left flank. But when he saw that the enemy had no weapons, that even their bows and arrows were not at hand, and that he was supposed to chop down little girls and old women, he rebelled on the spot, taking counsel with no one but his own conscience. ↗

— James A. Michener

#native-americans #slaughter #men