Assassination Quotes

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

— Hilary Mantel

“Gossip is assassination without a weapon.”

— Sawbridge

Absolutism tempered by assassination

— Count Munster

“The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. ”

— George Bernard Shaw

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Congrats, you’ve just had your first assassination attempt.”

— Benedict Jacka

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“When it comes to assassination, execution is everything.”

— R.S. Gompertz

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

— Brad Pitt

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

— Jeane Dixon

“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Character assassination. What a wonderful idea. Ordinary assassination only works once, but this one works every day.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

— Louis Farrakhan

A king's assassination is why most often fear the hell. So needless to say this, leadership is not with a timid sail.

— Wale

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

— Frederick Lenz

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of…

— Emanuel Celler

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching,…

— Mark Twain

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for…

— Eric Ambler

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

— J. G. Ballard

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared…

— Ahmed Yassin

Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa…

— Marianne Williamson

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the…

— Sefi Atta

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think…

— Daniel Craig

“Frames 221 to 223: The motorcade is now in front of the camera lens, moving ever so slowly. The President and First…

— Francis Barel

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

— Robert Heilbroner

[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

I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and…

— James Ellroy

What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies…

— Mary C. Neal

The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite…

— L. Fletcher Prouty

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that…

— Maya Angelou

There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse…

— Brad Pitt

“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence,…

— William Shakespeare

You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] thinks we’re trying to assassinate…

— Pat Robertson

You see the natural progression of what happens when the executive gets power and then a new executive comes in. The new…

— Alex Gibney

“You see, the system was set up after the political assassination of John F. Kennedy to bring in more repression. And then…

— Mae Brussell

“Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“And you will spend the rest of your life wondering if I have disciples to avenge me. Hire your tasters, Burbesh. Until…

— L. Joseph Shosty

“The initial shooting that led to the conflict was itself a farce. The assassin in question was a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo…

— J.M.R. Higgs