Killing Others Quotes

• No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

  Abdul Kalam

  Motivational, Requirements, Promotion

  "Philosophy & Social Action", Vol. 29, Nr 1-4, (p. 20), 2003.

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Majority Rule

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks, there were always crows, particularly at certain times of the year. And they're very aggressive, very visible and loud. They're not at all likable, but they have to be dealt with. They are part of the picture, the art in the morning. You cannot deny their reality.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Morning, Art, Reality

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist on killing others. His parents were dead now, but that didn't stop people from not trusting him. They seemed to think he'd go Strigoi at any moment and take everyone else with him. His abrasiveness and dark sence of humor didn't really help things, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

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• Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

  J. G. Ballard

  Hands, Play, People

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• The tendency to cruelty
  should be watched in
  children and if they
  incline to any such
  cruelty, they should be
  taught the contrary
  usage. For the custom
  of tormenting and killing
  other animals will, by
  degrees, harden their
  hearts even toward man.
  Children should from
  the beginning, be
  brought up in an
  abhorrence of killing or
  tormenting living
  beings.

  John Locke

  Children, Heart, Animal

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• One does not learn how to die by killing others.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Doe, Killing, Dies

  "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book IX: Ch. 4), 1848 - 1850.

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• Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Men, Innocent Man

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

  John Keegan

  Men, Long, Doe

  "John Keegan: A History of Warfare". "Booknotes" with Brian Lamb, booknotes.org. May 8, 1994.

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• Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

  Susan Glaspell

  War, Men, Together

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”

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• War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.

  Steven Morrissey

  War, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Military, Men, Mirrors

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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Army, Gun

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• You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

  Anne Rice

  Vampire, Penalties, Said

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

  John O. Brennan

  War, Awful, Sometimes

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