Quotes About Assassination

Assassination, in Wolf's opinion, was "an increasingly popular amateur sport of the times"; and "political true believers," as he called nearly everybody, were always the sworn enemy of the artist—who insisted, however arrogantly, on the superiority of a personal vision.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

[On the assassination of President John F. Kennedy:] It was, as I saw it, a case of "the chickens coming home to roost." I said that the hate in white men had not stopped with the killing of defenseless black people, but that hate, allowed to spread unchecked, had finally struck down this country's Chief Magistrate.

In 757, having ruled for forty-one years, he was killed by his own bodyguard

there, looking for a man they wouldn't find. They'd go because they'd know for sure that Horn couldn't be in Goodhue County, where he'd be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther

It's okay." Lucas took a chair. "You need somebody killed?" "Several people, but I'd hesitate to ask, at least here in the office, on the Lord's Day," the governor said. He gave the papers a last shuffle, set them aside, pressed a button on a box on his desk, and said, "Get in here," and asked Lucas, "You've been reading about Porter Smalls?" "Yeah. You guys must be dancing in the aisles," Lucas said.

this country since 1865 has an unenviable record for political violence. Four presidents, plus the attempts on Truman and both Roosevelts—as you know, Teddy was actually wounded, in his unsuccessful campaign in 1912—not to mention Huey Long. There isn't a country west of the Balkans with any kind of the same record. The Prime Ministers of England go everywhere with a single bodyguard.

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone. In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and telephones, murder and assassination.

The time for princes and tsars and grand duchesses and especially holy madmen was gone. In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and telephones, of murder and assassination. The bear had already become what it had been waiting to be, and the men who set it on its journey changed too. Lev became Trotsky, Vladimir took the name Lenin, and they stepped into a bright and furious modern world; blood red, and snow white.

Nobody saw Nicky killed.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

We're all adults here—we all know the score. We know what they do to people like me and my mom, to paradoxical hybrids of arrogant narcissism and vulnerable naïveté. We know what happens to unreconstructed surrealist militants. Tortured. Marked for assassination. Imagine what awaits me out there.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.

It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

When Schrank approached Roosevelt, a quick-thinking bystander deflected the gunman's hand and probably saved the ex-president's life. After the incident, the crowd attempted to lynch Schrank, but Roosevelt calmed the mob. He yelled, "Don't hurt the poor creature!" as police hauled Schrank away.

who wryly observed that no one would believe there was a plot against an emperor until he was found dead?

The basic rule of Roman history is that those who were assassinated were, like Gaius, demonised. Those who died in their beds, succeeded by a son and heir, natural or adopted, were praised as generous and avuncular characters, devoted to the success of Rome, who did not take themselves too seriously.