Assassination Quotes · Page 5

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in…

— Robert Heilbroner

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have…

— J. G. Ballard

['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and…

— Rob Lowe

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

— John F. Kennedy

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a…

— Anonymous

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

— Frederick Lenz

“It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such…

— United Press International

We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn…

— Ismail Haniyeh

I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government…

— Bill Hicks

“In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the…

— Loren D. Estleman

I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and…

— Marvin J. Ashton

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have…

— Louis Stokes

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

— George Bernard Shaw

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

— Pope Francis

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate,…

— Chris Murphy

[Robert] Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are…

— Brad Pitt

The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why…

— Stephen Hunter

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil…

— Angela Davis

“1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy…

— Christopher Hitchens

Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as…

— William Herndon

In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found…

— Louis Stokes

[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz`s father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put…

— Chris Hayes

Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take…

— Shimon Peres

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again…

— Silvan Shalom