Killing people Quote by Eric Miles Williamson

“I’d never saved anyone or anything in my whole life. I didn’t like the idea of it. I was nobody’s hero. But the alternative…

— Sarah Darlington

“There’ll be people better and smarter than you, Adam. There always are. Your strength must be to want it more, and let nothing get…

— Richard North Patterson

“You don’t look a man in the eye when you kill him. Not unless you have to, anyway. You stab him in the back.…

— Andrew Warren

“But as long as they gave us medals, that fixed it, as far as the army was concerned. You expect heroes to survive terrible…

— T. Kingfisher

“Sousa Mendes, armed with little more than a rubber stamp, was responsible for the largest rescue operation by a single individual during the Holocaust.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who…

— Matthew Quick

“You can’t volunteer to go to war and then bitch about getting shot at.”

— Nathaniel Fick

“I've stabbed a man to death. Had sex with a stranger on camera. My soul was stained black with so many crimes, but I…

— Lana Sky

“He has an aide, paid for by the VA, who helps him with his leg brace, his arm brace, his hand brace, his clothing,…

— David Finkel

“He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.”

— Geoff Butler

“You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for…

— Mal Peet

“Put a gun in a young man's hands and call him a soldier. Doesn't make him a killer. Sew a stripe on his arm,…

— Rio Youers