Killing Quotes

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  There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

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• Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fairs

  Song: Hit 'Em Up

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Death, Suicide, Men

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• You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fear, Heart, Sadness

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• I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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  I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Death, Sarcastic

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

  Alan Paton

  Men, Killing Each Other, Violence

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotic

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Animal, Men, Use

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• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

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• I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Death, Suicide

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

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• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

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• If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

  Tony Benn

  Money, People, Political

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.

  Kevin Benderman

  Art, War, Hero

  Kevin Benderman (2007). “Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience”

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• When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Dream, Creation, Where You Are

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014

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• Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Terrorism, Innocent

  "9-11". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2001.

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