Killing Quotes
1591 Killing quotes by 1134 unique authors
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We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
— Derrick Jensen
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All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.
— C.S. Lewis
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't…
— Quentin Crisp
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A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself
— Mother Teresa
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He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill…
— Chellie Pingree
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Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live…
— Pope Francis
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How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
— Carl Sagan
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Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
— Lou Holtz
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Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory,…
— Archilochus
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No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and…
— Denis Waitley
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Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were…
— Kage Baker
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland…
— Hilary Mantel
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There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and…
— Shimon Peres
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I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious",…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance…
— Muhammad Ali
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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you…
— Assata Shakur
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The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens…
— Larry Flynt
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In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that…
— William J. Clinton
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