Best 574 quotes in «killing quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

... 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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...

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

The time I kill is 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.

To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi.

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.