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You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
- James 5:5
Revelation 12 presents Christmas from a cosmic perspective, adding a new set of images to the familiar scenes of manger and shepherds and the slaughter of the innocents.
- Philip Yancey
I dream of a day when governments and societies no longer value blood and race over children, and the millions of unwanted children are freed at birth for adoption by people of every race. Aside from all its other benefits, massive adoption is the best assurance that people will never again slaughter the other. When members of every family are one of those others, such hatreds will become, finally, impossible.
- Dennis Prager
But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.
- Cormac McCarthy
To overcome in battle, and subdue nations, and bring home spoils with infinite man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch 0f human glory.
- John Milton
I have examined Man's wonderful inventions. And I tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.
- George Bernard Shaw
His tears were not for Himself, though He well knew whither His feet were tending. Before Him lay Gethsemane, the scene of His approaching agony. The sheep gate also was in sight, through which for centuries the victims for sacrifice had been led, and which was to open for Him when He should be "brought as a lamb to the slaughter." Not far distant was Calvary, the place of crucifixion.
- Ellen White
The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.
- Barack Obama
But how practical, how eminently realistic! said Mr. Scogan. In this farm we have a model of sound paternal government. Make them breed, make them work, and when they're past working or breeding or begetting, slaughter them. Farming seems to be mostly indecency and cruelty, said Anne.
- Aldous Huxley
Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.
- Anonymous