{"quotes":[{"text":"...Because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["loss","massacre"],"id":36613,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["battle","civilians","history","massacre","revolution","war"],"id":51055,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"It’s so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen… She stares out of her window at the busy street, where the British go about their daily business, taking it for granted that they will never be arrested for not voting the right way, praying the right way, dressing the right way or for belonging to a different tribe.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["asylum","britain","freedom","gratitude","massacre","migrant","refuge","safety"],"id":64765,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":". . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.","author":"Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach","tags":["atheism","blood","carnage","consoling","crime","cruel","death","deity","divine","fanatics","god","gods","happiness","jealous","killing","massacre","meditating","monotheism","murder","polytheism","religion","sacrifice","savage","selfish","war"],"id":83903,"author_id":"Paul+Henri+Thiry+d%27Holbach"},{"text":"If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes clasped in the mothers' arms. They were ordered to kill women, and to pierce, with the sword of war, the unborn child. 'Our heavenly Father' commanded the Hebrews to kill the men and women, the fathers, sons and brothers, but to preserve the girls alive. Why were not the maidens also killed? Why were they spared? Read the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, and you will find that the maidens were given to the soldiers and the priests. Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this? Is it possible that God permitted the violets of modesty, that grow and shed their perfume in the maiden's heart, to be trampled beneath the brutal feet of lust? If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil? When, in this age of the world, a woman, a wife, a mother, reads this record, she should, with scorn and loathing, throw the book away. A general, who now should make such an order, giving over to massacre and rapine a conquered people, would be held in execration by the whole civilized world. Yet, if the bible be true, the supreme and infinite God was once a savage.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","book","brutal","children","commandments","defense","destroy","devil","father","general","god","heart","hebrews","history","jehovah","loathing","lust","maidens","massacre","mercy","modesty","native","numbers","priests","read","savage","scorn","sword","the-bible","the-devil","wife","women","yahweh"],"id":101044,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"But GOD was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven: Thus were the Stout Hearted spoiled, having slept their last Sleep, and none of their Men could find their Hands: Thus did the LORD judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies!","author":"John Mason","tags":["colonialism","massacre","mystic-massacre","providence","puritanism","religion","religion-and-kindness","war","war-and-society"],"id":132006,"author_id":"John+Mason"},{"text":"She knew nothing of the massacre that went on around her, but when she released the wail of a broken hearted mother, one man heard her. The one who took her son's life.","author":"Elizabeth Bourgeret","tags":["broken-heart","hurt","life","loss","massacre","mother","pain","son","wail"],"id":141852,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Bourgeret"},{"text":"It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known life did not resemble one of her book stories or Moria's bard tales, and yet there was a part of her that hoped it did. The more she saw, the more she realized she was wrong. People made up stories because that is what they wanted from their world. A place where goodness, kindness, and honor were rewarded. They were not rewarded. The people of Edgewood could attest to that. - Sea Of Shadows.","author":"Kelly Armstrong","tags":["fiction","massacre","reality","stories","tragedy","wish-fulfillment"],"id":151593,"author_id":"Kelly+Armstrong"},{"text":"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["animals","corporations","joy","massacre","people","slaughtering"],"id":155249,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Abortion of potentials is a massacre of purpose. You don’t get the fruit because you killed the seeds!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["abort","abortion","dream-killers","food-for-thought","fruits","israelmore-ayivor","kill","kill-the-dreams","massacre","murder","potentials","purpose","purposeful","seeds"],"id":164449,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}