killing Quotes

“The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; but, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

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“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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“Everything kills everything else in some way.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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