Bargaining Quote by Alex de Waal

“Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.”

— Nelson DeMille

“Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is a decision to die.”

— Orson Scott Card

“The imperative of war is to kill, and thus all wars are exercises in sanctioned murder.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered…

— Chinua Achebe

“The only ones who kill are those prepared to be killed”

— Lelouch Vi Britannia

“When mortality is the equation, we are but pawns in a game.”

— Dianna Hardy

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves…

— James Baldwin

“There is no honor in sending people to die for something you won’t even fight for yourself.”

— Mark Owen

“A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.”

— Ben Bova

“No killing intention in a society of eternity.”

— Toba Beta

“When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.”

— Winston Churchill

“Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.”

— Shannon L. Alder