{"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":"One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt and rubbed it on the wound. Now that hog really went nuts. It was my way of taking out frustration. Another time, there was a live hog in the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running around. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of pipe and I literally beat that hog to death. It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and frustration, and I’m thinking what in God’s sweet name did I do.","author":"Gail A. Eisnitz","tags":["animals","brutality","cruelty","frustration","meat","pigs","sadism","slaughterhouse","vegetarianism","violence"],"id":197571,"author_id":"Gail+A.+Eisnitz"},{"text":"A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","security","security-of-life","security","slaughter","slaughter-house","slaughterhouse","terror","terrorism","terrorism","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":277635,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["animal-cruelty","diet","ethical","ethics","food","slaughterhouse","vegan","veganism","vegetarian","vegetarianism"],"id":318877,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Such is the condition of organic nature! Whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!","author":"Erasmus Darwin","tags":["condition","eat-or-be-eaten","injustice","nature","rapacity","slaughterhouse","struggle-of-existence","struggle-of-life"],"id":437927,"author_id":"Erasmus+Darwin"},{"text":"Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously. I place my boots neatly on the floor of the porch beside the other pairs in the shadows under the coats. Music drifts through to us from a distant room – it’s the Beach Boys’ California Dreamin’. Dawn looks at me and I smile – they’ve put the record on for me. Dawn nods along happily. ‘Hear you’re a surfer boy!’ she says and she mimics riding a wave.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["amaya-ellman","dark","dysfunctional-family","fear-and-suspense","fiction","psychological","slaughterhouse","thriller"],"id":466928,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}