Killed Quotes
1939 quotes by 1314 authors
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For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this…
— George Schaller
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
— Utah Phillips
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The silence killed your faith.
— Barack Obama
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed,…
— Oscar Romero
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It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to…
— Unknown Author
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It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
— W L George
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Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears…
— Amy Ridenour
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or…
— Peter Cundall
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and…
— Charles Bowers
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Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause…
— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were…
— Colin Ward
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Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
— Arundhati Roy
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George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq. Helping to bring…
— Cindy Sheehan
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
— Eduardo Galeano
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been…
— George Monbiot
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an…
— Jean Genet
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My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed…
— Robert Bresson
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I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very…
— Charles Lindbergh
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