Killed Quotes
1939 quotes by 1392 authors
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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
— Johnny Carson
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It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what…
— Graydon Carter
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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
— Paul Cezanne
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We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center…
— Dick Cheney
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
— Winston Churchill
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or…
— Emile M. Cioran
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In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can…
— John Henrik Clarke
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my…
— Marie Antoinette
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The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been…
— Damon Hill
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Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to…
— Philip Kapleau
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To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs,…
— Philip Kapleau
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Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming…
— James Pickles
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails…
— Martin Luther
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Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last…
— Gerry Spence
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There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off…
— Charles Spurgeon
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