#slaughter

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#because #bird #chicken #flu #guy

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#meadows #pleases #sent #sheep #shepherds

No art is possible without a dance with death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art

The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. ↗

— Patrick Cockburn

#conventional-thinking #euphemism #language #laziness #savagery

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#funny #humor #humour #lambs #slaughter

There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go “Baa”, as they’re being slaughtered. ↗

— Skip Coryell

#heroism #hill #sheep #slaughter #heroism

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ↗

— Lao Tzu

#delight #how #man #men #rejoice

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. ↗

— Michael Aston

#about #innocents #mass #pretend #slaughter

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. ↗