Killing Quotes
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The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.
Adam Nicolson
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Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
Chris Johnson -
We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.
Benjamin E. Sasse -
If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
Woody Guthrie -
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell -
I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.
Bette Ford -
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
William Cowper Prime
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Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
Niall Ferguson -
This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.
Angie Zelter -
In the final analysis, animals in shelters are not being killed because there are too many of them, because there are too few homes, or because the public is irresponsible. Animals in shelters are dying for primarily one reason–because people in shelters are killing them.
Nathan Winograd -
Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.
Charles Bowden -
Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.
William Herndon
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I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman, had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time.
Brenda Novak -
Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
Sargent Shriver -
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Killing time takes practice.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon -
Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.
Caryl Rivers -
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer
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The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.
Sandra Bernhard -
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
Thomas Carlyle -
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.
Ernest Dimnet -
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
Molly Ivins