Killing Quotes - Page 28

• Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, People, Should

  "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said". Book by Philip K. Dick, Chapter 21 (p. 171), 1974.

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• Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Light, Evil

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1344, Macmillan

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• The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

  J. Lynn

  Silence, Looks, Quiet

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• Sorry we’re late,” Jason said. “Is this the guy who needs killing?

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Guy, Jason

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• I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.

  Scott Lynch

  Names, Poison, I Can

  Scott Lynch (2013). “The Republic of Thieves”, p.45, Del Rey

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• I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

  Ann Aguirre

  Stupid, People, Assuming

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.816, Macmillan

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• Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Running, Jumping, Stopping

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.264, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Tails

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, War, Years

  1974 On the end of World War II. Gather Together In My Name, prologue.

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• Killing time is not an easy job.

  Haruki Murakami

  Time, Jobs, Easy

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.36, Random House

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• Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

  Herbert Spencer

  Time, Men, Always Trying

  "The Dictionary of Essential Quotations" by Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, (p. 154), 1983.

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• I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

  John Shelby Spong

  Girl, God, Son

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• Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

  Will Durant

  Love, Motivational, Faith

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• America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, America, People

  "Cindy Sheehan Unplugged". Cindy Sheehan's speech at a rally to honor Lynne Stewart at San Francisco State University, archive.frontpagemag.com. April 27, 2005.

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• The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Government, Law, America

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2008.

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Economy, Marxist, Ideology

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• The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Ukulele, Trying, Abolish

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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Peace, Children

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• It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Art, War, Thinking

  "The Japanese Art of War". Book by by Thomas Cleary, 1991.

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• We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

  Jalal Talabani

  Children, War, Lying

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• It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

  Brett Favre

  Couple, Nice, Animal

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• We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Believe, Son

  "Co-op cuts Christmas box link with US charity" by Hugh Muir, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

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• [During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.

  Emmanuel Jal

  God, War, Land

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• The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience

  Bill Moyers

  God, Powerful, Healing

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