Killing Quotes

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. (Leo Tolstoy)
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse. View quote
Golda Meir
One does not learn how to die by killing others. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. View quote
Howard Zinn
I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. View quote
George R. R. Martin
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. View quote
Henry Miller
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. View quote
Emil Cioran
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. (Mikheil Saakashvili)
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. View quote
Robert Crumb
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. View quote
Henry Adams
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. View quote
Groucho Marx
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. View quote
Tom Clancy
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. View quote
Tom Clancy
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war-for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. View quote
John Lennon
Time That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. View quote
Nagarjuna
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. (Newt Gingrich)
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world. View quote
Michio Kushi
I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope. View quote
Scott Lynch
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal. View quote
Morarji Desai
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson