Killing Quotes - page 3

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved. (H. Beam Piper)
Sanya, Knight of the Cross: Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. View quote
Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden: On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain. View quote
Jim Butcher
Marx... Lenin... Mao Tse-Tung... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions. View quote
Dorothy Day
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either. View quote
Paulo Freire
Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. View quote
Robert Jordan
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth. (Nâzım Hikmet)
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. View quote
Henry Miller
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. View quote
William S. Burroughs
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history. View quote
Keith Richards
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about. View quote
Michael Scheuer
Sports is like a war without the killing. View quote
Ted Turner
Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself? View quote
Emil Cioran
Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology. View quote
Anatoly Chubais
Swift blazing flag of the regiment, Eagle with crest of red and gold, These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter, Make plain to them the excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie. View quote
Stephen Crane
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. (Peter Singer)
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. View quote
Alice Walker
Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line. View quote
Tacitus
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself. View quote
Larry Flynt