Killing Quotes - Page 27

• 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, Killing Others, Awful

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• The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

  David R. Brower

  Order, Risk, Dollars

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• There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

  Harry Browne

  Military, Japan, People

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• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Purpose, Machines

  "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

  Tucker Carlson

  People, Hussein, Stills

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• It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Too Late

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Patriotic, Positive Energy

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• Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

  Robert Crumb

  Suicide, Commitment, People

  "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  Ted Cruz

  Hurt, Jobs, Government

  "Ted Cruz: 'When Was The Last Time You Saw A Hispanic Panhandler?'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2012.

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• What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

  Snoop Dogg

  Night, People, Joining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

  Steve Earle

  Government, Ideas, Democracy

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• The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

  Umberto Eco

  Killing Each Other, Century

  "Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

  Albert Ellis

  Sex, People, Anxiety

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• I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

  Eve Ensler

  Lying, Thinking, Denial

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Men, Tyrants, Want

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• The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Kids, Years, Oakland

  "Lupe Fiasco Considers Retirement After Chief Keef Spat" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2012.

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• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Believe, People, Killing Each Other

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• When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

  Thomas Frank

  Running, Bridges, Meat

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

  Al Franken

  Ideas, Years, Support

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• If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, Thinking, Acting

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• I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

  Eva Gabrielsson

  Believe, People, Vengeance

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• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Courage, Brother

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Land, Jail

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• In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Justified, Defeated

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