Killing Quotes - Page 12

• I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dad, Writing, Stories

  "The Best Jokes Are Dangerous, An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part Three". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.mcsweeneys.net. September 18, 2002.

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• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Humanity, Doe

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• My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Doctrine, Able

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Years, Malaria

  "Charting a Course to End Malaria" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Machinery, Goods, Capitalist

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Technique, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Training, Dying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Mind, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Deception, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1946). “Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani”

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• To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Badges, Satyagraha, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Terrorism, Circumstances

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

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• Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Done, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Suffering, Excitement

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Essence, Defeated

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• At the time, we were mad at Moammar Gadhafi, which resulted in us bombing all over Libya and killing a bunch of people, but not him. Then Ronald Reagan gets up and says we're not trying to kill him, we're just dropping bombs. You can kill all the Libyans you want, but legally you can't try to kill the leader.

  Dave Barry

  Mad, People, Leader

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.

  Teju Cole

  People, Mind, President

  "Teju Cole on the 'Empathy Gap' and Tweeting Drone Strikes". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. March 6, 2013.

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• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  K'naan

  Cousin, School, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Rap, Home

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, www.imdb.com. April 17, 2004.

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• As long as the people who kinda wanna go kill other people are going to go kill other people who kinda wanna go kill other people, you're killing all the right people and opening up all the best parking spaces.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Humor, Opening Up

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• Stop killing your brothers and your sisters and help them out in any difficulty. That's my message.

  Sizzla

  Brother, Messages, Helping

  Source: www.thepier.org

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• There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Writing, Walking Away, Years

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• [Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  People, Example, Film

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

  Allan Boesak

  Brother, Children, Blood

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds, or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question: "Shall we sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1) And: "Shall we do evil that good may come?" (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It is presumption to step into God's place and try to make the assignments to heaven or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.

  John Piper

  Baby, Years, Play

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