Assassination Quotes

110 quotes by 88 authors

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination… — Megan Whalen Turner
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
President Kennedyâ€™s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. Itâ€™s like no one wants to be the first to break the… — Kathryn Stockett
Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice. — Rachel Vincent
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC… — Nelson Mandela
April frowned, irritation evident. â€œI did not consent to your presence,â€ she said peevishly. â€œPlease depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone elseâ€™s property. — Mira Grant
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of… — George Orwell
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision,… — Thomas Paine
Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban… — Teju Cole
Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the… — Noam Chomsky
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my… — Asif Ali Zardari
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. — Irving Layton
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to… — Lindy Boggs
There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from… — Louis Stokes
Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do… — Louis Stokes
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination… — Louis Stokes
True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans… — Bob Beauprez
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to… — Tom Shales
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all… — Belle Boyd
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. — Voltaire

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