Killing Quotes - Page 17

• Once you have dared to dream, I believe you MUST pursue that dream. If you do not pursue your dreams they will consume you; the knowledge that you had a dream but did not pursue it is killing knowledge. Consider it absolutely necessary to go after your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Believe, Pursue

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• To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

  Henry Miller

  Past, World, Gestures

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

  John Adams

  Honesty, Tyrants, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

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  Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

  James Brown

  Country, Real, Kids

  James Brown, Bruce Tucker (2014). “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul”, p.175, Head of Zeus

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• There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Mind, Mankind

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• Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

  Bill Johnson

  America, Greed, Boeing

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• Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

  Ben Folds

  Cheating, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Done, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Beautiful

  Interview with Sloane Crosley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 3, 2013.

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• You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how they died and how to better serve the community. At the same time these people have lives outside and families and my character in particular, he has a fiance and things are going well for him, so you've got to show that nice warm compassionate side at the same time you've got to show the steely, icy cool of a doctor. Not only that, but a doctor who gets a bit of a God complex and starts killing people for sport.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Sports, Nice, Character

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Names, People, Going Out

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, White, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her mother, because in "Beloved" you have a mother killing their children. This is not something a child would accept very easily. And would never understand.

  Walter Mosley

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

  Tony Campolo

  Kids, Grandchildren, Rewards

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• When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

  Winston Churchill

  Ladybugs, Butlers, Asks

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• Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Feelings, Suffering, Tragedy

  "Back to the Führer: This Guy Studies Baby Hitler Time Machine Scenarios". Interview with Dave Glison, www.motherjones.com. October 23, 2015.

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• We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Vietnam, Communism

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• The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

  Richard M. Daley

  Havoc, Homicide

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• The killing of Osama has taken place nearly 13 years after the terrorist bombings in Nairobi that led to the death of over 200 people, in an act believed to have been masterminded by Osama. His killing is an act of justice to those Kenyans who lost their lives and the many more who suffered injuries.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Taken, Years, People

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

  Ivan Lendl

  Good Day, Bad Day, Retiring

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• I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Years, Shapes, Pharmacy

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• Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Numbers, Shia, Source

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