Killing Quotes - Page 29

• I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, People, Messages

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• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  A. N. Wilson

  Dragons, Monsters, Giants

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• There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.

  Tom Wolfe

  Technology, Issues, People

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

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• Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Violence, Bitter, Paradox

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• You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!

  Anthony Burgess

  Lessons, Bogs, I've Learned

  "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Blood, Hands

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Evil, Needs

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.289, Souvenir Press

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• Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Thoughtful, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Jerome P. Seaton (2009). “Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.

  Marian Keyes

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Mosquitoes, Praying, I Pray

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• When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

  Mark Mills

  Men, Ideas, Laughing

  Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.45, Penguin

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• Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

  Tom Holt

  Nice, Sick, Support

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• How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

  Ishmael Beah

  Eye, People, Safety

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Escaping, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Hands, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

  Robert Jordan

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  "The Great Hunt". Book by Robert Jordan, 1990.

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• What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

  William Shakespeare

  Swine

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• It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

  James A. Baldwin

  Flags, Shock, Allegiance

  Speech at Cambridge University, 17 Feb. 1965, in New York Times Magazine 7 March 1965, p. 32

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• Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.

  Margaret Weis

  Dream, Eye, Wearing Black

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (1985). “Dragons of Winter Night”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Thinking, Space

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• Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Imagination, Making Love

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• If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

  Steven Wright

  Eternity, Time To Kill, Ifs

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• Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

  Will Christopher Baer

  Reality, Fiction

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• Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jesus, Fall, Animal

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• Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Army, Practice, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.65, Parallax Press

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