Killing Quotes

1591 Killing quotes by 1134 unique authors

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
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy
Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling — Larry the Cable Guy
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the… — Eric Pianka
I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art… — Ronald Reagan
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
I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into… — Unknown Author
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves. — Zac Posen
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst… — Sylvia Plath

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