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• Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

  Holly Near

  Death, Fear, Killing Someone

  "Foolish Notion" (song) (1981)

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• You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
  You can kill a man, but not an idea.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Fear, Government, Political

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

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• No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare

  Carmine Galante

  Mafia, Criminals, Mobster

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• Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Peace, Government

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

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• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

  Joan Baez

  Death, Peace, Military

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• If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

  Christina Ricci

  Sleep, Prepared, Knows

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• Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

  Danica Patrick

  Moving On, Believe, Failure

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face the troubles and problems of life and death willingly. Virtue, integrity and courage are my priorities. I can be approached, but never pushed; befriended but never coerced; killed but never shamed.

  Yi Sun-sin

  Life, Courage, Badass

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• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

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• Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Communication

  "What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results". Book by Howard Edson (p. 184), 2003.

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Self, Aggravation

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 10

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• Sports is like a war without the killing.

  Ted Turner

  Sports, War

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• I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

  Judy Collins

  Stronger, Gone, Ifs

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• I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

  Conor Oberst

  Depression, Memories, Drink

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

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• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.

  David Bentley

  Religious, Powerful, Ignorance

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• Life is sacred? Who said so, God? Hey, if you read history you'll realize that God is one of the leading causes of death...has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, all taking turns killing each other because God told them it was a good idea.

  George Carlin

  Christian, Years, Ideas

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• We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.

  Julian Beck

  Pain, War, People

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• Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

  Compay Segundo

  Animal, Men, Suffering

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• We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Teenager, Team

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

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• Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

  Martin Luther

  Healing, Mean, Law

  "The Freedom of a Christian" by Martin Luther, 1520.

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