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Quotes About Killing

For I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
~ Sylvia Plath
And we, too, had a relationship— Tight wires between us, Pegs too deep to uproot, and a mind like a ring Sliding shut on some quick thing, The constriction killing me also.
~ Sylvia Plath
The careerists win everywhere, believe me! Hassan's fanaticism was a career to him. Killing was his corporate job. The apocalypse was how he planned to corner the market.
~ Tabish Khair
Most violence committed against women is perpetuated by men. I once read a quote that the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her.
~ Tami Hoag
Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work. It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself. I never! gasped Sarra, indignant. You taught me when you were murdered in your own house, Daine said quietly.
~ Tamora Pierce
He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
~ Ted Dekker
Te obstinas en separar lo inseparable –dijo Tell–. ¿No sabías que son Némesis, no los has visto nunca? Son siempre el mismo tranvía, cualqueir diferencia se anula apenas se sube, no importa la línea, la ciudad, el continente, la cara del guarda. Por eso cada vez hay menos –dijo brillamentemente Tell–, los hombres se han dado cuenta y los están matando, son los últimos dragones, las últimas gorgonas.
~ Julio Cortazar
What are we to make of a civilization which has always regarded ethics as an essential part of human life," he asked, but "which has not been able to talk about the prospect of killing almost everybody except in prudential and game-theoretical terms?
~ Kai Bird
Tarvek: How are you even still moving ? Zola: HATE! Hate and drugs! Lovely, lovely drugs! I'm a beautiful, chemical killing machine!
~ Kaja Foglio
The Islamic Revolution of Iran has been killing Americans, hundreds of Americans, for 35 years in Iraq and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
~ Tom Cotton
For abortion opponents believe that a class of persons are being killed by such methods as dismemberment, suffocation, and burning, and thus are more than perplexed to be told that they don't have to participate in the killings if they don't want to. Saying 'If you don't like abortion, don't have one.' to those opposed to abortion is similar to telling abolitionists not to own slaves if they don't like slavery.
~ Francis J. Beckwith
But by any broad human rights criteria, the republican regimes of the region were responsible for far more killing, brutality, oppression and, often, corruption and theft of the people's wealth than were the monarchies. Between, on the one side the Shah of Iran, Nuri Said of Iraq and King Faruq of Egypt and, on the other, the Islamic Republic, the Iraqi Ba'th Party and the militaristic junta that has ruled Egypt since 1952, there is no comparison.
~ Fred Halliday
The metal war-machines that humans called berserkers were the ultimate enemy of everything that lived. The creators of those inanimate weapons were gone, but the weapons themselves raged on across the Galaxy, endlessly repairing and replicating themselves, improving their own design, and refining their killing capabilities in an eternal effort to accomplish their basic programmed task, the elimination of all life, wherever and whenever they could find it.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?" "Dumb luck," Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia... Step One: find Regalia, then totally explode her. Lots and Lots. Step Two: put Val on decaf. Step Three: Mizzy gets a cookie.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I didn't say Tvlakv isn't a bastard. He's just a likable bastard." He hesitated, then grimaced. "Those are the worst kind. When you kill them, you end up feeling guilty for it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Cómo te has hecho tan popular? —Maté a su dios
~ Brandon Sanderson
You can't stop a storm by blowing harder. You can't save men by killing others. We should all become surgeons. Every last one of us….
~ Brandon Sanderson
Bastille has a talent for killing conversations. Basically, Bastille has a talent for killing anything.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Integrity doesn't stop men from killing, Brightness," Sebarial said. "It just makes them use different justifications.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The heroes from the legends weren't necessarily the polite types. Killing people and fancy talking didn't always go together, old Jarel had once told him.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Killing Us Softly 4,6 and Katz's DVD is titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity.7) As
~ Brene Brown
I've spent many an hour with an inner argument about armed conflict, trying to distinguish the act of killing from the act of murder – the one apparently being worthy of honour and praise and the other of punishment and disgrace.
~ Brenda Davies
The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.
~ Mark Walport