Killing Quotes - Page 28

• The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Hydrogen Bomb, Soul

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1996.

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• I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

  Elton John

  Country, Mean, Play

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

  Rashida Jones

  Goal, Body, Chemotherapy

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• When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

  Chief Joseph

  Hurt, Heart, Men

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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White, People

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• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Killers, Helping, Patient

  "'Dr. Death' speaks out from jail". Interview With Rita Cosby, www.nbcnews.com. October 5, 2005.

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• Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

  Louis L'Amour

  Anger, Men, Betrayed

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.45, Bantam

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• Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

  Curtis LeMay

  War, Criminals, Lost

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• I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• We can't afford to be killing one another.

  Nelson Mandela

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

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• Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

  Marilyn Manson

  Children, Adults, Entertainment

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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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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

  Guy Pearce

  Running, People, Rating

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• Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

  Rick Perry

  Dream, Jobs, Regulation

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• Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Tired, Government

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• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  Dan Quayle

  Simple, Answers, Killers

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• At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

  Charles Rangel

  Quagmire, Fields, Stuck

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• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Brother, Truth, People

  "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Islamic, Law, Damage

  "What's Right With Islam Is What's Right With America". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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• There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Village, Way

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• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, People, Bad Things

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• In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Talking, Office

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• There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

  Steven Spielberg

  Men, People, Soul

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• 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Awards, Stories

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