Killed Quotes
1939 quotes by 1314 authors
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You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
— John Mellencamp
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That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much…
— K.J. Parker
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Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
— Ayn Rand
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There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many…
— Michio Kaku
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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
— C.S. Lewis
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The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting…
— Harry Browne
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You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason…
— Rudolph Rummel
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of…
— John B. S. Haldane
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers,…
— John Owen
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I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
— Agnes Repplier
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people…
— Mother Teresa
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My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned…
— Ann Hood
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Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;…
— John Bunyan
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."…
— Rajneesh
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