Assassination Quotes - Page 5

• A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

  David Talbot

  Change, Political, Frustrated

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• I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

  Pierre Salinger

  Suicide, Son, Men

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• I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Children, Military, Training

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• Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.

  Raoul Peck

  Thinking, Years, Leader

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• When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit) that is what I do" - these are the words he tells me after the assassination of the Minister of Justice ordered by my father himself in 1984 - it's very difficult to react to that when you are only 7 years old because you don't realize the significance of the word bandido.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Years, Justice

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Political, President, Roles

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns - which are just part of the special forces operations and so on - all of these operations are terror operations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Special, Administration

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

  Sarah Vowell

  Writing, Dedication, Focus

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• We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Warrior, Blood, Oppression

  "Mixed reaction in Mid East". Interview with Anne Barker, www.abc.net.au. May 3, 2011.

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Terrorism, Killing

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

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• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

  Manning Marable

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

  Robert Baer

  Effectiveness, Drones, Firsts

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

  Eric Alterman

  Technique, Use, Morality

  "Dick Cheney's Shadow Government" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2009.

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• We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

  Pat Robertson

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "US Christian extremist branded a terrorist". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

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• In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Drones, Campaigns

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• To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

  Michael Beschloss

  Fathers Day, Boys, People

  "Authors speak out on the Kennedy mystique". www.cnn.com. July 19, 1999.

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• Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

  Harry S. Truman

  Suicide, Religious, Home

  Address at National Archives, Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 1952

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• When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

  Jack Ruby

  President, Vices, Beloved

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• Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you.

  Perry Noble

  Procrastination

  FaceBook post by Perry Noble from Sep 30, 2012

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• Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

  Khushwant Singh

  Kings, Sleep, Night

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”

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• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Fun, My Favorite, Scene

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

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• By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Jobs, Sex, Directors

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• There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

  Mark Twain

  War, Lynching, Names

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.368, Univ of California Press

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• The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Simple, Space

  Isaac Asimov (2008). “The Stars, Like Dust”, p.28, Tor Books

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