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Killing Quotes by Jared Diamond
- Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve…
- Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread…
- We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,…
More Killing Quotes
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to… — Andre Gide
- If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
- This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
- Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that… — Rajneesh
- It goes Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day. Is that fair to anyone who's alone? These are all days you gotta be… — Laura Kightlinger
- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer
- None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about… — Gary L. Francione