Cold Blooded Quotes

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Carpe Diem, Government, Ice

1936 Renomination acceptance speech, Philadelphia, 27 Jun.

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Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Karin Slaughter

Wind, Gone, Cold

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I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Hunter S. Thompson

Cold, Revolutionary, Conventions

"Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist" by Douglas Brinkley, (p. xvi), 2000.

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It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

Upton Sinclair

Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance, Knowing Nothing, Government

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.352

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These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.

Herbert M. Shelton

Baby, Children, School

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The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

Aleister Crowley

Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.

Avis Bohlen

Opportunity, Trials, Cold

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Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

Rick James

Rich Or Poor, Cold, Poor Life

FaceBook post by Rick James from Mar 24, 2014

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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

J. L. Carr

Memories, Lying, Writing

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[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Malcolm X

Men, Purpose, Cold

Source: nyx.uky.edu

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...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.

Nas

Rap, Blow, Clothes

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It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

Arthur Rothstein

Views, Photographer, Cold

Arthur Rothstein (1965). “Photojournalism: Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers”

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Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mistake, Government, Divine Justice

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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In the land of badass, you’ve just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of War because that’s what they thrive on, they’re cold-blooded and intolerant. Congratulations, bud, these are your new protectors. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dog, Badass, War

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.302, Macmillan

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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.

S. E. Hinton

Mean, Thinking, People

S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.

Donna Tartt

Thinking, Tears, Matter

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As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Children, Night, Average

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So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and always avoid blondes." "I've heard. And no." "Too bad. Because you're making me rethink my stance about doing my friends' exes." i snorted, not even trying to hide my...incredulity? Surely I wasn't amused. "Your making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide

Gena Showalter

Hair, Black, Trying

Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.474, Harlequin

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Have you seen how fish are able to swim in a school so precisely relating to their fish-fellows and never clumsily bump into one another? That's because they have a highly developed sense of feeling in their bodies, which enables them to feel not only the movement of the water against their skin but the presence of other beings who are close. They certainly are not cold-blooded in the sense that they are dull, insensitive, and have no feelings.

Sharon Gannon

School, Water, Feelings

"Sharon Gannon on Veganism". Q & A with Sharon Gannon, jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

Young-Ha Kim

Artist, Men, Creating

Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

Fridtjof Nansen

Greed, Political, Might

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As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

Dean Koontz

Law, Play, Lines

"Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a majestic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as hot-blooded as the earlier Macbeth when he kills Polonius and the King, cold-blooded as the later Macbeth or Iago when he sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.

Harold Clarke Goddard

Kings, Revenge, Ambition

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I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

Thaddeus Stevens

Wish, Cold, Murder

Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.169, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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