Quotes About Killing

during the national anthem to protest the killing of African Americans by police; and has consistently avoided unequivocal condemnations of violence perpetrated by white nationalists.

This was a young man who had killed, but never before been in imminent danger of being killed. I felt oddly qualified to introduce him to the sensation.

There is, in all honesty, no way to kill someone mercifully. There are those who count it no crime to drown an imperfect newborn in warm water, as if the infant will not struggle desperately to draw air into its lungs. Did it not try to breathe, it would not drown. But they do not hear the screams nor feel the darkening of the mind that the child endures, so they have been merciful. To themselves. This is true of most "mercy killings.

And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might be easier than killing them?

I haven't forgiven anything. And I don't believe in the "us" you think I might take vengeance on. You didn't do this to me. But even if you had, killing you would not undo it.

Oh," said Penric. "I didn't introduce ourselves, did I. I'm Penric and my demon Desdemona. Say something, Des." "Idiot child," said Des dispassionately. "Could you be a more witless tool?" "Uh, not sure that's helpful, Des." "She tried to kill my favorite Cedonian general. You can't expect me to like her.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

was sixty feet off, but the bullet caught him in the top of the head, killing him instantly.

Some men are gifted to paint, some to write, and some to lead men. For me it was always to e this, not to kill men, although in the years to come I was to kill more than I liked, but to command such situations as this.

There was a reason adultery was forbidden, that is was a moral sin akin to suicide; it killed you from the inside out.

the out-of-control momentum of extreme violence of unlimited warfare fueled race hatred. "Successive generations of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, made the killing of Indian men, women, and children a defining element of their first military tradition and thereby part of a shared American identity.

You may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and you can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and SEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.

What's the meaning of this? His heart is completely different now, he has none of the indecision or sadness or fear of before. I sense only anger, and he delights in the thought of killing me.- Goshinki

What was it Da said? Órlaith thought grimly. Yes, that it's a great pity that fighting evil starts with killing evil's conscripted farmers.

this is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too.

And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive the company of good ones forever.

it seems profoundly unlikely that our universe has been designed to reward individual primates for killing one another while believing in the divine origin of a specific book.

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.

În politic?, dragul meu, È™tii ca È™i mine c? nu exist? oameni, ci idei. Nu sentimente, ci interese. În politic? nu se ucide un om, se suprim? un obstacol, atâta tot.

When our revolution became very severe with killing in street and hostage in Emrika embassy, it made afraid all Emrika. Even it made afraid many Iranian...Emrika did think: Iran became cray! But really Iranian was same people, only difference, we have some fanatic with power. Everyone else same.

The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.

Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.