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Quotes About Killing

Un odio bien alimentado es la mejor arma para seguir matando
~ Santiago Gamboa
One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That's the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, 'I'm going to make a killing.' It's not accidental. Only they haven't got the genuine courage to kill, and they erect a symbol of it. The money. They make a killing by fantasy.
~ Saul Bellow
Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to a kind of benumbed despair.
~ Scott Anderson
Tyler pinched the bridge of his nose. "I have more than one problem with that idea. The first I'll bring up is that you shouldn't call it Kelly. Destroying a dragon is much, much easier emotionally than killing Kelly. The second is that we're trying to keep from upsetting the little girl, and setting her on fire is probably going to upset her.
~ Scott Meyer
I find it intolerable that this lord is out there going about his depravities unhindered. I was hoping you might know some way to deal with the man." "Oh, Yes," James said with a dark, ominous smile. "I can think of a few ways." "Short of killing him, that is," Derek felt it prudent to add. James said nothing for nearly ten seconds, then, "If you insist.
~ Johanna Lindsey
A warrior does not kill because it is his wish to, but because he must. And because he has been made strong enough to do it. Killing is not easy. It shouldn't be. If it becomes easy for you... you become a killer.
~ John Arcudi
The ultimate purpose of all sacrificial killing was to lead us to Christ; it was a testimony to the salvation of our souls in Christ, which alone is eternal. Therefore
~ John Calvin
The Guardian might have represented many of the liberal values that Frend disdained, but he did not think it would be the first choice of journal for someone intent on torturing and killing a kidnap victim, even if it were only to be used as a prop.
~ John Connolly
In Yosemite, we see how everyone can inherit the earth. But that gift requires a change of heart, a new intention, a deliberate turning. From now on, we must go forward, back into the world of violence and war, to do our part to end the killing, the suffering, and the ongoing destruction of Mother Earth. Yosemite, along with all of creation, calls us to wake up, stand up, and stop the insane destruction of the earth before it's too late.
~ John Dear
Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
~ Glen Duncan
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
~ Nick Hornby, About a Boy
I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.
~ John McCain
The killing beast that cannot killSwells and swells in his fury tillYou'd almost think it was despair.
~ Edwin Muir
How I deep judge, how I deep, surprise, and shock at the brutal killing of the innocent people.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping.
~ Elena Ferrante
A já myslel, že tÄ› jako vále?ného zajatce propustili! PÃ…â"¢esnÄ› tak... Mezinárodní právo nás trochu jako chránilo jako polské zajatce. Ale Ã…â"¢íÅ¡ského Žida mohl zabít na ulici kdekdo!
~ Art Spiegelman
It's time for Washington to get out of the way and quit killing American jobs.
~ Stephen Fincher
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
~ Karl Marlantes
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
~ John Burnside
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
~ Herbert Hoover
Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef