Killing Quotes

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Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is… — Francis Schaeffer
Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. — Mahatma Gandhi
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly… — Joseph Lowery
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd… — Arthur Brisbane
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! — Victor Hugo
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most… — William J. Brennan
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking,… — Nhat Hanh
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery
It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done… — Joseph Lowery
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,… — Ramsey Clark
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now, that's… — John F. Kerry
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,… — Unknown Author
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses. — Utah Phillips
So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture… — Snoop Dogg
Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever… — William Shakespeare
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of… — Oscar Romero
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! — William Shakespeare

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