Best 574 quotes in «killing quotes» category

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

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.

The destruction that we have wreaked in the various theaters in which we've been engaged is really quite astonishing. But again, lethality, destruction, killing doesn't seem to achieve our objectives. So, my own sense is that a lack of lethality does not define the core problem.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.

The killing of innocent people is a sin.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!

The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.

The time I kill is killing me.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

There's only two classes of people: terrorists and non-terrorists. Terrorists come in every flavour: there are Buddhist terrorists right now killing Rohingya in Burma! Buddhists! They're not allowed to kill bugs.

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

This planet is our home and we're trashing and killing it.

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.