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Quotes About Kill

Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to preserve white supremacy. So it gave power - the right to kill - to any white claiming to defend the honor of white women.
~ Shelby Steele
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
~ Donna Leon
Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.
~ David D. Burns
We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.
~ John Olver
laboratory in London rechecked your blood sample and the anthrax inside you couldn't kill a flea.
~ Robert Muchamore
I flew, I hunted, I killed. I am SINTARA!
~ Robin Hobb
It was depraved, wasn't it? Like those people who listened to endless crime podcasts, sifting through the details of cold cases, all the different ways people can torture and kill each other.
~ Lisa Unger
I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Pym looked at the bugs, glanced at the sleeve of his proud uniform, stared again at the deadly parody of his insignia the creatures now bore, and shot Miles a look of heartbreaking despair, a silent cry which Miles had no trouble interpreting as, Please, m'lord, please, can we take him out and kill him now?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You bastards are on the top of Imperial Lord Auditor Miles Vorkosigan's very own shit list now, you bet. But under what name? Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me. Sadly, it wasn't even a record.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation.
~ Louis L'Amour
But how had the outlaw gang planned to kill him?
~ Louis L'Amour
I could love you, I could kill you. I want this. This is how I make my mark, this is where I plant my flag, this is how I stake my claim, this is how I deny you, this is how I claim you, this is what you owe me, this is what I am taking, this is how I know I'm alive.
~ Louise Dean
I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time, said Father Wolf. He is altogether without hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my foot. But see, he looks up and is not afraid.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The Song of Mowgli—I, Mowgli, am singing. Let the jungle listen to the things I have done. Shere Khan said he would kill—would kill! At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Kagome...the light...the light will kill Naraku.- Kanna
~ Rumiko Takahashi
After seventy-three years of bolshevism, people do not know what freedom of thought is, and so in its place they practice freedom of action. And here freedom of action means freedom to kill. And there's perestroika for you, the new thinking.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Raptors like these falcons were solitary by nature; they didn't even like each other except in the mating season, much less humans. All you could teach them was that doing what humans wanted would get them more of what they wanted, which was to kill, eat, mate and sleep.
~ S. M. Stirling
What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name? How well, with what fatal results, religion erects totems, and how willing we are to kill for them! And when we've done it often enough, the deadening of affect that results makes it easier to do it again. So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name. The problem's name is God.
~ Salman Rushdie
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
~ Emilie Autumn
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
~ John Adams
You can have enemies you never really meet, Logen had plenty. You can kill men you don't know, he'd done it often. But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
~ Joe Abercrombie