Mutilation Quotations

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

In Sudan, the estimate is that over 89 percent of women have gone through some form of FGM. These women deserve the right to be whole and complete women within their communities. Female genital mutilation is a violation of that right.

The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'cool' activity. The types of mutilation are varied and creative, and range from removing the hair to decapitation, burning, breaking and even micro-waving.

It's kidnapping, mutilation and rape against children. We all have blood on our hands in letting this go on.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.