Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 44:22.

Cuinchy†was a slaughter yard† Who that had been there for but a few hours could ever forget the sullen sorcery and mad lineaments of Cuinchy?

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  Undertones of War,'I V. The Sudden Depths'. Cuinchy, near Arras, was the scene of heavy fighting in1914.

Bilbo's the word, and slaughter will ensue.

-Congreve,William
  Bluffe to Sir  Joseph. The Old Bachelor, act 3, sc.7.

   why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voices of liberty be mute? He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  is 5,'Two, III'.

Their lot forbad: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined: Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.65^8.

  Even in victory, there is no beauty, and he who calls it beautiful is one who delights in slaughter.

-Lao-Tzu   6c
c.250  BC  Tao-te Ching, no.31. Collected in LinYutang (trans and ed)  The Wisdom of China and India (1942).

On war and mutual slaughter bent.

-Milton,John
  Of Mankind. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.506.

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at thenew truthwith handsblood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

-Ortega y Gasset,Jose¤
  The Revolt of the Masses.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Devil to DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.

In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards.

-Sontag, Susan
Reflecting on the11Sep terrorist attacks in NewYork. In the NewYorker, 24 Sep.

The really great batsmen fall into two categories.One comes to the wicket saying to the bowlers 'I am going to slaughter you'. The other comes to the wicket saying 'You can't get me out'.

-Travers, Ben
94 Declared Cricket Reminiscences.

I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?

-Walcott, Derek Alton
  In a Green Night,'A Far Cry from Africa'.