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Quotes About Killing

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.
~ Mike Tyson
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
~ Catherine Opie
My father helped you with that. . that thing you do?" "Yes. Your father helped me with that peacemaking thing I do that keeps you happily killing for a living.
~ G.A. Aiken, Supernatural
You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.
~ Debasish Mridha
I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
~ Hermann Goring
The suppression of awareness required by our universal practice of commodifying, enslaving, and killing animals for food generates the "built-in mental disorder" that drives us toward the destruction not only of ourselves but of the other living creatures and systems of this earth. Because this practice of exploiting and brutalizing animals for food has come to be regarded as normal, natural, and unavoidable, it has become invisible.
~ Will Tuttle
Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain or terrors animals felt in dying.... The animal also died a second death. Severed from the form in which it had lived, severed from the act that had killed it, it vanished from human memory as one of nature's creatures.
~ William Cronon
How did the Indian Army behave when it got to Hyderabad?' I asked. 'When an army invades any country – whether it's Alexander the Great, Timur, Hitler or Mussolini – when it gets into a town, you know what the soldiery does. It's very difficult for the officers to control them. I can't tell you how many were raped or killed, but I saw the bodies of many. Old scores were paid off across the state.' I
~ William Dalrymple
Modern man is the Cosmic Orphan because he has killed God. And, by doing so, he has reduced himself to an accident of nature. When he asks, Why? his cry is lost in the silence of the recesses of space. When he dies, he dies without hope. Thus, in killing God, modern man has killed himself as well.
~ William Lane Craig
She thought so hard all the time. Always writing, writing. I think it was a mercy killing. She asked him to kill her and he did. And then, of course, yes, he ate her.
~ David Cronenberg
Most monsters take and trample. Dracula alone seduces, courting before he kills.
~ David J. Skal
There is a sadness that only hunters know, a moment when lament overshadows any desire for celebration. Life is sustained by death, and though going to the field is an act of taking responsibility for that fact, the killing is not easy, nor should it be.
~ David Joy
What a villain you are, to boast of killing women and children of your own nation! What will God say when you appear before him?" "He will say," replied he, "that I was a very clever fellow.
~ David Livingstone
Thani's man, Yahood, who was leader in the other case of 40 killed, boasted before me of the deed. I said, "You were sent here not to murder, but to trade;" he replied, "We are sent to murder." Bin Nassur said, "The English are always killing people;" I replied, "Yes, but only slavers who do the deeds that were done yesterday.
~ David Livingstone
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
~ Pope John Paul II
I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!
~ Stephen Colbert
The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.
~ James V. Schall
We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God - I am killing me!
~ Bill Hicks
The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?
~ Storm Jameson
Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.
~ Kevin Drum
My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.
~ Edward Britton
The girl leaned forward and kissed Thomas on the cheek. "You're sweet. I really hope we don't end up killing you, at least.
~ James Dashner
I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope.
~ Scott Lynch