Killing Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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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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• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Doe, Cures

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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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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• None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Talking, Peculiar

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Pain, Adventure

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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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• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them....well it's killing me!

  Wendy Liebman

  Marijuana, Bothering You, People

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