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Quotes About Killing

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
~ Peter Ackroyd
I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
~ Derrick Jensen
Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.
~ Orlando Bloom
Contempt is murder committed by the intellect, as hatred is murder committed by the heart.
~ George MacDonald
The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?
~ George Orwell
You may not understand this, but I don't think it matters killing people so long as you don't hate them. I also think that there are times when you can only show your feeling of brotherhood for someone else by killing him, or trying to. I believe most ordinary people feel this and would make a peace in that sense if they had any say in the matter. There has been very little popular resistance to this war, and also very little hatred. It is a job that has to be done.
~ George Orwell
Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author
~ George Washington
Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead! You display an unseemly joy, he remarked. I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
~ Georgette Heyer
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
~ Susan Powter
I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope.
~ Scott Lynch
They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless. Those deaths are going to hang over your head until you're so careful you make the saints of Perelandro weep.
~ Scott Lynch
Of course they were your friends, Locke. They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.
~ Scott Lynch
It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.
~ Scott Lynch
It was a perfect night for a killing.
~ Scott McCrea
Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.
~ Amir Mohamed
For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.
~ Mark Twain
the moronic nature of fighting it--of killing yourself to survive.
~ Markus Zusak
As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.
~ Martha Wells
Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)
~ Martha Wells
Later, claiming responsibility for the killing, the IRA said the man had been killed because he was supplying the Security Forces with fruit and vegetables.  McVeigh would not be the only person to die for such a tenuous reason – many businessmen would be murdered in cold blood for similar 'activities'. Throughout
~ Martin McGartland
After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Io non miro con la mano; colui che mira con la mano ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io miro con l'occhio. Io non sparo con la mano; colui che spara con la mano ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io sparo con la mente. Io non uccido con la pistola; colui che uccide con la pistola ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io uccido con il cuore.
~ Stephen King
The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai
~ Jonathan Glover
Anything that binds people together into a moral matrix that glorifies the in-group while at the same time demonizing another group can lead to moralistic killing, and many religions are well suited for that task. Religion is therefore often an accessory to atrocity, rather than the driving force of the atrocity.
~ Jonathan Haidt