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Quotes About Killing

I am not Death. I am killing; I am the verb, I am the action, I am the performance.
~ John Scalzi
What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill.
~ John Scalzi
So someone could just come up and kill me, and there would be no legal repercussions?" "Well, no," she said. "If someone were to murder you while you were legally dead, I believe that here in Ohio they could be tried for 'disturbing a corpse.
~ John Scalzi
It was an odd being which rose from Felix and through him. It was, in fact, a remarkable creature. It was a wartime creature and a surviving creature. A killing creature. The Engine, Felix thought. It's not me. It's my Engine. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside.
~ John Steakley
war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.
~ John Steinbeck
Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew—that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.
~ John Steinbeck
O]nly Colonel Lanser knew what war really is in the long run . . . and he tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for a new weariness and new hatreds.
~ John Steinbeck
He tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.
~ John Steinbeck
Yes, I can understand that. It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate." "Maybe that makes it easier," said Louis. "You have a point, Louis. But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
~ John Steinbeck
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
~ Stephen King
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
~ Jean Baudrillard
If the public insists it has the right to know, which I very much doubt, perhaps the people should go and face for themselves armed terrorists hell-bent on killing every single American they can.
~ Marcus Luttrell
That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual killing.
~ Marcus Sakey
Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.
~ Margaret Weis
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.
~ Unknown
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
~ Marilyn Manson
I have hunted for less. I have killed for less. But never with as much pleasure.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
The act of killing is not a good thing. God did not put us on this earth to kill each other," he said slowly as he searched for the words. "But sometimes it has to be done.
~ Unknown
Best years of my life. Hell, killing, drinking, and fucking—to an Okie from Henryetta, Vietnam wasn't no war, it was a goddamned vacation." He shook his head. "Politicians fucked up a pretty good war.
~ Unknown
when you see godless world leaders wreaking havoc, spewing out threats, killing their own people, trampling basic human rights, and fomenting anti-Semitism, remember that even though they are ultimately responsible for their actions, an evil force is at work behind and through them, trying to bring the world under Satan's control.
~ Unknown
Please recall that she rescued you from torture not so many years ago, and do try to be nice" Lobo I remembered, but the last thing I wanted was social coaching from a killing machine. Jon
~ Mark L. Van Name
Ethan developed an ethos that over the years he whittled to a one-line mantra: I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.
~ Unknown
He gave a grim meaning to this threat by killing three of his Sikh opponents in one week.
~ Unknown