{"quotes":[{"text":"We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki-habyarimana","eat","fight","knife","laugh","life","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-experience","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","real-life","real-life-drama","real-life-endings","real-life-facts","real-life-situations","real-life-struggle","sheep","slaughter","slaughterhouse","source-of-life","sweet-life","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":2730,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"In the preface of 'The Rifles' 'Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing.' Barnabas Piryuaq'Well, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created.' Jan Welzi 1933. ","author":"William T. Vollmann","tags":["animal-rights","environment","hunters","native-americans","slaughter","violence"],"id":4163,"author_id":"William+T.+Vollmann"},{"text":"We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty shadow cast by the light of annihilation. In the face of a future of atrocity I stand mute, numb to the only feeling that would make me human. But I remember what fear was: its cold pulse in my veins; its echo in my ears. I remember fear, and remember that I was once human. I look towards what must come to pass and I wish that I could meet it as my ancestors did, with fear. The future deserves that, it deserves fear.","author":"John French","tags":["fear","fearless","future","human-nature","humanity","life-or-death","slaughter","the-soul","warhammer-40k"],"id":51109,"author_id":"John+French"},{"text":"You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.","author":"James Luceno","tags":["history","slaughter","violence"],"id":126983,"author_id":"James+Luceno"},{"text":"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.","author":"Patrick Cockburn","tags":["cliche","conventional-thinking","euphemism","language","laziness","savagery","slaughter","war"],"id":155854,"author_id":"Patrick+Cockburn"},{"text":"Never let the emotions of the past tie you down for your future to slaughter. Resist every opportunity to become angry and you will live a healthier happier life!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","angry","emotion","emotional-disorders","emotions","food-for-thought","future","good-health","happier","health","healthy","healthy-life","israelmore-ayivor","life","opportunity","past","resist","resistance","slaughter","tie"],"id":155924,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and 'compassionate' or 'certified humane' or whatever, which *may* be *slightly* less hideous. But it's all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ethical-veganism","francione","happy-meat","humane","humane-labels","moral-imperative","rights","slaughter","slavery","veganism","welfare"],"id":168043,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"The beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and kin and rout them from their house. A god insatiable whom no ceding could appease nor any measure of blood.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["human","slaughter","wolf"],"id":194791,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.","author":"Jonathan Safran Foer","tags":["animals","eating","meat","responsibility","slaughter"],"id":205514,"author_id":"Jonathan+Safran+Foer"},{"text":"There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["continue","despair","each","helplessness","honour","mourn","mourners","mourning","poem","poetry","resurrect","sadness","sadness","silence","silent","slain","slaughter","sorrow","sorrow","sorrowful","spiritual","verse","weep","weepers","willingness"],"id":206770,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}