Killing Quotes - Page 14

• The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Time, Philosophical, Mean

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Criminals, Moral, Capital Punishment

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Thinking, Wanting To Die

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

  Storm Jameson

  Brother, Stupid, Men

  Storm Jameson (1956). “The Intruder”, London Macmillan 1956.

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• I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

  Werner Herzog

  Steps, Genocide, Insecticides

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• Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.

  Joy Behar

  Weight, Skinny, Fats

  Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion

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• Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

  Margaret Visser

  Determination, Animal, Fire

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

  Katha Pollitt

  Moon, Men, Blood

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• Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

  Phyllis Chesler

  Time, Waste, Please

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• When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

  Julia Serano

  Ideas, Decision, Males

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.50, Seal Press

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• Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

  Anna Thomas

  Food, Animal, Needs

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Distance, Men, Emotional

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• We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Pockets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Publicity, Innocence

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

  Mick Jagger

  Country, Ideas, Dying

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• Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people are living spread out and hence are at the mercy of stronger animals, who begin killing them off.... They seek to save themselves from the beasts by banding together and forming cities. But they do injustice to one another, at such close quarters, because they lack the political art. So, dispersed once more, they begin perishing again.

  Paul Ludwig Landsberg

  Art, Animal, Men

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• Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Ninety Nine, Should, Tigers

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.

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• The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

  African Spir

  Art, War, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 55), 1937.

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• Killing you and what you represent is a statement. I''m not a hundred percent sure exactly what it''s saying

  Mickey Knox

  Hundred, Percent, Statements

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• In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Loss, Egypt

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• I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Race, Evil

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• When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

  Hoda Kotb

  Fashion, Night, Shoes

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• Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Stress, Ducks, People

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.

  Evadne Price

  War, Distance, Gun

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• I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

  Michael McMillian

  Writing, Blood, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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