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If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. -- Henry Rollins
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. -- George W. Bush
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. -- Liam Neeson
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage. -- Yahya Jammeh
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. -- Antonio Tabucchi
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background. -- Anthony Browne
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. -- Dennis Prager
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris. -- George Ayittey
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. -- John Thorn
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead, -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? -- Alexander Hamilton
I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage. -- Edgar Wright
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. -- Ayn Rand
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. -- Chris Hedges
I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864. -- George Will
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. -- Mark Kurlansky
Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial and chest piercings. I am very fortunate to have just been schooled by someone who looks like they graduated from Care Bear Carnage University. -- Heather Chapple
We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability, -- Mike Huckabee
Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors' to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us" . . . all of us. -- John C. Bogle
Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage. -- Cate Shortland
I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq. -- Charles B. Rangel
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. -- George McGovern
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing? -- Marcy Kaptur
Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep? -- Frank B. Kellogg
We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that. -- Oliver North
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage. -- Joan Baez
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake -- Rohinton Mistry
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie. -- Joseph Addison
i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; -- Walt Whitman
Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace! -- Lord Byron
She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?" He showed her his teeth. "Yes. -- Ilona Andrews
The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out. -- Bradley Whitford
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage. -- Vernor Vinge
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle. -- Walter Cronkite
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways. -- Voltaire
Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well. -- Bruce D. Perry
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. -- W. H. Auden
If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. -- Tony Blair
Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield! -- Walter Scott
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue -- Betty Williams
The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield. -- Oscar W. Firkins
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood! -- Calvin Coolidge

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