Top 86 Killing Others Quotes
#1. No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#2. Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Nothingness is staring you in the face. Utter and permanent oblivion. You will cease to be. To be, Jack. The dier accepts this and dies. The killer, in theory, attempts to defeat his own death by killing others. He buys time, he buys life. - Murray (WN 291)
Don DeLillo
#5. Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.
Michael Redhill
#6. I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.
Mike Quigley
#7. I guess by default we're all the ones shaking our heads at the stupidity of others until we're forced into traumatic experiences ourselves.
J.A. Redmerski
#8. Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
Robert Jordan
#9. I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.
Ishmael Reed
#10. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
Kim Dotcom
#11. If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
Donald L. Hicks
#12. Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.
Karen Marie Moning
#13. You can't just go around killing people.
You're right. You can't go around killing people.
Cassandra Clare
#14. We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.
Derrick Jensen
#15. The trick to not killing yourself was to convince yourself, every single day, that your departure from the world would have a devastating effect on absolutely everyone around you, despite consistent evidence to the contrary.
Jennifer DuBois
#16. A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.
Edith Wharton
#17. The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.
Victoria Nuland
#18. The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.
Cassandra Clare
#19. Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps.
Dian Fossey
#20. Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
Rick Perry
#21. I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
Jack Kevorkian
#22. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
Leonora Carrington
#23. I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.
Tim Pawlenty
#24. Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
John Burnside
#25. The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
Alan Watts
#26. A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Madame Roland
#27. By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.
Joseph Lowery
#28. To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.
William Shakespeare
#30. We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.
Nhat Hanh
#31. The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.
Jenny Joseph
#32. Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
Pablo Neruda
#33. I look up. Raffe and the others are frozen in the middle of their fight. Everyone is staring at us. A human girl. Killing a warrior angel. In a sword fight. Impossible.
Susan Ee
#34. Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.
Paul L. Maier
#35. Over all the millennia, only you have ever loved me, Thor. Only you have ever looked at me with affection in place of condescension. Why, then, am I killing you, and not the others? Because you stopped.
Robert Rodi
#36. Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.
Robert Baden-Powell
#37. If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.
Bertrand Russell
#38. Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
Dorothea Dix
#39. Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink ... others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.
Billy Graham
#40. To control the deaths of others - when, where, the craft of ensuring it was a cleanly sliced ending - that was possible. And in some strange way, such killing felt like controlling whatever remained of his own life.
Richard Flanagan
#41. High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier - all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.
Robert A. Heinlein
#42. Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.
Susan Glaspell
#43. War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.
Sharon Kay Penman
#44. There's no difference between one's killing
and making decisions that will send others to kill.
It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Golda Meir
#45. Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.
J.G. Ballard
#46. When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
Paige Craig
#47. (Devon) "Cam - you're killing me," she quavered, pressing her head back into the pillow and praying for patience. Her heart was pounding.
"I'm loving you," he corrected in a hot whisper, then took her nipple deep into his mouth as his palm brushed over the damp lace covering her core.
Kaylea Cross
#48. Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
Bill Willingham
#49. There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
Swami Vivekananda
#50. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.
Mark Lewis Taylor
#51. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself
Jon Lajoie
#52. War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#53. In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
Newt Gingrich
#54. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
Carl Sagan
#55. It's like killing roaches. You have to kill 'em all ... Otherwise, what's the use?
Paul Kersey
#56. The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.
Sabaa Tahir
#57. I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.
Bindi Irwin
#58. 'Killing Pablo' to me - as much as I love 'The Grey's script - 'Killing Pablo' to me is the best thing I've ever written.
Joe Carnahan
#59. Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
Del Shannon
#60. Balance the world in your relationship. No one person should be responsible for killing ALL the Zombies.
Jesse Petersen
#61. He trained every day with Eeluk and his bondsmen, and he knew that movement was the key to killing with swords. Any man could heave a blade around his head, but footwork separated a man from a master.
Conn Iggulden
#62. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell
#63. The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#64. The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
Anatoly Chubais
#65. We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women and men together, was confronting the cultural dynamics that are killing us all- killing women and men, killing our children, killing the planet.
William Keepin
#66. But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.
Joe R. Lansdale
#67. I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.
John McCain
#68. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.
Elena Ferrante
#69. My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Lee Trevino
#70. The thing about killing is you don't know if you can actually do it until you actually do it.
Rick Yancey
#71. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.
Arthur Brisbane
#73. I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.
Annie E. Clark
#74. I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other.
Joshua
#75. Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
Nora Roberts
#76. IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She
Mark Lawrence
#77. The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.
Paulo Coelho
#78. More. Give me more.
I don't know if you're ready for this. He's shirtless.
You're killing me. Is he built?
Like a Greek god.
Nooooo.....so unfair. I don't have any hot neighbors, just acres and acres of corn fields.
Sue Barr
#79. For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.
James G. Frazer
#80. Killing humans - isn't that the aliens' job?
Rick Yancey
#81. We're not quitting until I'm satisfied you know what you're doing," he said in a low voice.
"Until we're both satisfied," she corrected.
Killing. Him.
Roxanne Snopek
#82. War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#83. If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
William Greider
#84. A pistol ain't good for nothin' but killing other human beings, man.
George Pelecanos
#85. We are not killing the planet. It is our arrogance that makes us believe we are capable of such destruction. The earth will be here at the end of it all, long after we're gone. The only thing the human race is destroying is our ability to inhabit it.
Luke Gracias
#86. Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
Marguerite Duras
