Killing Each Other Quotes - Page 2

• Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, People, Looks

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• What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

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• People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

  Vince Staples

  Hurt, People, Forever

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

  Frans de Waal

  Party, Chance, Stakes

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• If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

  Pema Chodron

  Religious, Peace, Heart

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• If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!

  Eva Mendes

  Country, Sex, Children

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• The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

  Coleman Barks

  Religious, Religion, Individuality

  Coleman Barks (2010). “The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Father, Wedding Anniversary

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• While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

  Garth Nix

  Empires, Next, Boundaries

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Gun, Japan

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• If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Years, Old Habits

  "Lawrence Eagleburger: Not removing Saddam Hussein 'probably a mistake'". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 21, 2001.

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• Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

  Michael Scott

  Ideas, Personality, Together

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

  Aaron Huey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.

  Kelvin MacKenzie

  America, People, Middle East

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• I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

  Michelle Sagara

  Hate, Thinking, Gathering

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.1080, MIRA

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• I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

  Ricky Gervais

  Atheist, Believe, Fighting

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2012

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• Classic line from Bones (vampire) to human who thinks human kind is ready for the vamps and ghouls to come out of the closet "The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that".

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Thinking, Ghouls

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• The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

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• In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stupidity, Humanity, Robots

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• The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage "That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury

  J.R. Ward

  Mouths, Enough, Bigs

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

  Umberto Eco

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

  Ralph Fiennes

  Believe, People, Killing

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• My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They’re killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won’t even matter.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, People, World

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• The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

  John Marsden

  Hero, People, Stories

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could have killed you.” “Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged. “If there’d been an ocean in Kansas, maybe.” “I don’t need an ocean—” “Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.” Food first,” Percy said. “Please?

  Rick Riordan

  Ocean, Boys, Kansas

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