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“. . . 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.”
― Baron D'Holbach

“Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together.”
― Jonathan Gash, The Rich and the Profane

“The more violent this war becomes, the more the deceased start to just look like numbers. How many died yesterday? How many died today? The line between human losses and those of money and equipment begin to blur. There is no individual, no soul, and no dignity to death. But you're fighting back against that.”
― Kafka Asagiri, ÎĺÀ¥¹¥È¥ì¥¤¥É¥Ã¥°¥¹ Ì«Ô×ÖΤÈü\¤Î•r´ú [Bung¨­ Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]

“Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is not about our world collapsing. Rather, it¡¯s about another human being holding our hand in the collapse. For then the carnage is no longer about the loss, but about what both of these hands are going to build from it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You'll be back! If you're not, then I'll come and find you. Now, do as I say and go have some fun. I want those eyes to have light in them next time I see you." He turned me around, smacked my arse and sent me on my way.”
― Lesley Jones, The Story of Us

“Ci sono uomini indolenti, sono fatti cos¨¬, altri che non vogliono perdere un solo attimo di tempo, e si danno da fare, che differenza c'¨¨? Gli uomini si agitano fino a quando non muoiono.”
― Yasmina Reza, The God of Carnage

“It's beautiful, no?' he asks, a little smile on his face. A light in his fox eyes.

It is, of course. All of Faerie is beautiful like this, with carnage hidden just beneath.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The carnage is not the end of something. Rather, it can be the beginning of everything. And the manner in which the carnage serves us will depend on the manner in which we see it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In war the people trying to kill you are usually on the other side. In femicide, their husbands, boyfriends, friends, friends of friends, guys on the street, guys at work, guys at the party, or in the dorm and the week I write this, the guy who called a Lyft and stabbed the pregnant driver to death, and the guy who went into a bank and shot five women, and the guy who shot the young woman who took him in when his parents kicked him out, to name a few examples of the carnage that made it into the news.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“Nowadays people have forgotten about morality and virtue, but they know how to resolve arguments. Look, what¡¯s happening. We lead wars with measurements, dafters and calculations. We do not speak to inspire, we endeavour to create massacre and engulf as many people as we can. Where did we miss?”
― Alexander Zalan

“In an alarming turning of the proverbial tables, we repeatedly tell ourselves that what we ¡®want¡¯ is in fact what we ¡®need.¡¯ And if we ever dare push back our greed sufficiently so that we can catch even the slightest glimpse of the carnage wrought of ¡®wants¡¯ unleashed, pursuing our ¡®needs¡¯ will quite quickly end up being all that we ¡®want.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All individuals are responsible for all human carnage... in other words, anyone can stand in the footprints of the assassin.”
― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

“When our lives lay in scorched shambles, we cannot allow our lives to take on the identity of the carnage that lies smoldering all around us. Therefore, we must create something that irrefutably declares we are not what lies strewn at our feet. And so, we create successes that declare we are not this! Yet, the carnage remains.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“The fact that we can¡¯t see the horizon in front of us is because we¡¯ve focused on the carnage behind us. And if we face backwards long enough, we become convinced that the carnage behind us is the horizon in front of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Destruction is the process of creating space for something that could not be created until that which occupied that space was removed. And if we cannot see past the carnage of the removal in order to see the possibilities in the space, what was destroyed truly was destroyed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Peace will require the willingness to forsake the peace through force of arms in order to secure the peace for the future of mankind.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There was a moment when we sat unaware in great abundance, when suddenly the walls collapsed under a maelstrom that savagely scoured bare the landscape of our lives. And in the resulting carnage we either chose to cry for the lack of justice, or we chose to smile for the presence of God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The building blocks of greatness always lay in the carnage that we see as the destruction of what we had hoped would be great.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough