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Quotes About Killing

But you mustn't believe in killing, he told himself. You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The
~ Ernest Hemingway
So now it had started. Now they were going to give him a taste of what it meant to kill and then let yourself be bonded out of jail. They were going to let him know (not that they cared a hoot for the other boy) that he wasn't tough as he thought he was.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to. You divorce your wife because you don't love her. You murder her because you hate her.
~ Andrew Mayne
We exchange knowing nods, aware that this won't really end the pain, but killing monsters never does. It's just something you have to do when you see them for what they are.
~ Andrew Mayne
Our world is in equilibrium. The annihilation, the killing, of any creatures that inhabit this world upsets that equilibrium. And a lack of equilibrium brings closer extinction; extinction and the end of the world as we know it.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He was calm and cold. And killed calmly and coldly.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
No. I'm a witcher! When they were teaching me, I swore I would act against Evil. Always. And without thinkin...' 'Because when you start thinking,' she added hollowly, 'killing stops making sense. Revenge stops making sense.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I'll defend Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin - which does not seem likely to me - I'll carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster has killed me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is not what I chose. It was chosen for me.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
They're taught to kill, and all human feelings and reactions are trained out of them. They're turned into monsters in order to kill other monsters.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Remember, because this is important. Graveirs, like ghouls and other monsters in this category, do not have their own ecological niche. They are relicts from the age of the interpenetration of spheres. Killing them does not upset the order and interconnections of nature which prevail in our present sphere. In this sphere these monsters are foreign and there is no place for them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
~ Wavy Gravy
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
~ Khalil Gibran
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
~ Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn't on the run or anything - my crimes were small and they were all against fashion. But I had nightmares about accidentally killing someone, or being falsely accused.
~ Sara Pascoe
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.
~ Rick Baker
They murdered him.
~ Robert Cormier
The century was well along when I came in and now that it's ending, I realize it won't be long. But couldn't it all have been a little nicer, as my mother'd say. Did it have to kill everything in sight, Did right always have to be so wrong?
~ Robert Creeley
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
~ Robert Jordan
Brianna, there's a saying that goes something like this: those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. Do you believe the genocide that happened during the Second World War was the first or last time such a thing has happened throughout history? It isn't and it wasn't. Until the Lord comes, sinful people will choose sinful paths, and that includes killing the innocents.
~ Robin Lee Hatcher
There was, of course, another alternative to this endless, pointless killing - peace. Achieving peace depended on a recognition by all the participants that the war was not worth fighting, or that all that could be achieved had been achieved and the argument should be promptly transferred to the conference table. Given the benefit of hindsight and the losses so far, by the end of 1915 this seems the obvious alternative to more slaughter but that was not how it appeared at the time.
~ Robin Neillands
Peace negotiations began, or were at least initiated, almost as soon as the war began, but by 1915 they had led nowhere. The nations of Europe were not yet sick of killing and at the end of 1915 there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the fighting would go on.
~ Robin Neillands
People who work in slaughterhouses know that there is a spot on an animal's forehead to be found by drawing an imaginary line from the right ear to the left eye and another from the left ear to the right eye. They aim the killing blow an inch or two above the junction of this X. My uncle taught me that. He didn't work in a slaughterhouse, though. He just knew how to kill things.
~ Roger Zelazny