Assassination Quotes - Page 8

• It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Men, Thinking

  Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.29, Nation Books

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• Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

  David Horowitz

  Character, Names, Squash

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

  Henry Walter Bates

  People, Giving, Southern

  Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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• Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Form, Worst

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

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• I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and bought the existing Kennedy theory books, most of which are outlandish. But what DeLillo posits - some rogue CIA guys - is the most dramatically sound, plausible explanation for it.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Guy, Sound

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Book, Littles, Worthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

  Dean Acheson

  Stupid, Selfish, Thinking

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• I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.

  Sefi Atta

  Kings, Play, Elements

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• In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Country, Middle East, Different

  "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy". news.bbc.co.uk. March 24, 2006.

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• For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

  Frank Delaney

  War, Taken, Together

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• Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.

  Pierre Salinger

  Husband, Wonderful, Week

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• Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

  Walt Whitman

  War, Blood, History

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Specimen Days: & Collect”, p.314, Courier Corporation

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