Assassination Quotes - Page 7

• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  Voltaire

  Government, Tyrants, Politics

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• A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.

  Nate Powell

  Kings, Years, Birth

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Everyone knows drones are being deployed outside the US for assassinations. Let's say you even believe in drones. Shouldn't we have a system that would "justify" their use? i.e. we did this attack, because these bad guys were there, and here's what we did. We don't even have that.

  Robert Greenwald

  Believe, Guy, Drones

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

  Hilary Mantel

  Leader, Threat

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.

  Louis Stokes

  Country, Kings, Thinking

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• I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.

  Brad Pitt

  Years, Luxury, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• ['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.

  Rob Lowe

  Country, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

  John Stuart Mackenzie

  Democracy, Culture, Absence

  "An Introduction to Social Philosophy". Book by John Stuart Mackenzie (p. 383), 1895.

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• When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.

  Alice Neel

  Dog, Men, Goal

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• Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

  Chris Matthews

  Emotional, Desire, Agendas

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

  Peter O'Toole

  President Kennedy's Assassination, News, Heard

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• The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].

  Brad Pitt

  Horse, Successful, Choices

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Years, Dubious

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• [Robert] Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but certainly themes that are at play in this film [Assassination of Jesse James].

  Brad Pitt

  Play, Ideas, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

  Brad Pitt

  Gun, Stories, Aspect

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.

  L. Fletcher Prouty

  Powerful, Past, Roots

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• jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Comedy, Moments

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination... Gadhafi died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Fighting, Loss

  "Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan condemns killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi" by Ryan Haggerty, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Kings, Gun, Law

  "Edward Snowden’s Real Impact" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2013.

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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.

  David Brock

  Character, Echoes, Media

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• President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.

  Malcolm Kilduff

  Brain, President, Dallas

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• The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, War, People

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1979.

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• There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Leader, Weapons

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• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  Jo Nesbo

  Country, Home, Years

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