What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, th...e policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician--these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or mani...fest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the county there are thirty-seven churches and no butcher shop. This could be taken... as a matter of all form and no content.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of... a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living (and did right),... I would not have you think that Reuben Bright Was any more a brute than you or I;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,... Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their... own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »