Top 100 Quotes About Killing People
#1. If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
William Greider
#2. All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
Jean Goss
#3. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
#4. If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Ian Hacking
#5. I couldn't just start killing people. That wasn't really my thing.
H.D. Smith
#6. Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author
George Washington
#9. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.
Nevil Shute
#10. I'm not the best at this,' I said. 'I'm the best at... fighting... and like, robots... and killing people.' I paused. Wow, my resume sucked.
Steven Campbell
#11. I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Lars Von Trier
#12. Someone has described religious warfare as "killing people over who has the best invisible friend.
Bobby Henderson
#13. I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.
John Shelby Spong
#14. In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.
Paulo Freire
#16. [Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.
Thelma Schoonmaker
#17. It's not very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living.
Will Graham
#18. He'd hate to start killing people at this stage in the game. Especially some poor schmuck who happened to marry the wrong woman.
Shelly Laurenston
#19. You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't,it just makes them dead.
Joe Walker
#20. Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother's back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn't any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape.
Mindy McGinnis
#21. Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
John Lennon
#22. As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die ... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.
Tom Araya
#23. I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.
Charles McCarry
#24. The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.
Alan Keyes
#25. family?" I asked. "If the DA will agree," Phil said. "Has this ever been done before?" I asked. They both shook their heads and laughed. "They are running an illegal scheme in which they are killing people for profit and to silence them. Sounds like wiseguys to me," Izzy concluded. The
Kieran Crowley
#26. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.
Timothy Dalton
#27. Jorgenson needed help because he'd murdered someone without the sanction of the U.S. of A. Jorgenson never understood that you don't get medals for killing people unless you're killing people you don't know and who've never done a fucking thing to you.
Eric Miles Williamson
#28. There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people ... mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.
Richard Castle
#29. This is less of a 'the king needs a reason' thing and more of a 'the king loves burning shit and killing people' thing," Eric corrected.
Drew Hayes
#30. And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice."
Death sighed. No, he said ... there's just me.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Robert G. Elliott was not a murderous person by nature, but he proved, no doubt to his own surprise, to be rather good at killing people.
Bill Bryson
#32. And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive the company of good ones forever.
Sam Harris
#33. What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.
Snoop Dogg
#34. I've been trying to do better about killing people," Lynn said. "Then fate puts you in my path.
Mindy McGinnis
#36. Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the Department of Defense.
John McCain
#37. I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.
John Boyne
#38. The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action.
Peter Kreeft
#39. Since killing people is illegal, can I have a Taser just for shits and giggles? -Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Darynda Jones
#40. Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie
#41. I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
Eminem
#42. Hey, killing people doesn't count if they're bad! Hollywood taught us that.
C.T. Phipps
#43. Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.
John Battelle
#44. Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.
Sylvia Kristel
#45. This is the country for cruel experiments - it's where idealists are sent to die, my friend. Killing people who believe in things is our national sport." With
Philip Kerr
#46. Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.
Sam Hamill
#47. You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people!
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#50. A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.
Rose McGowan
#51. If you had a free society you couldn't get people to go to war, if you had an intelligent type of upbringing in ones children. They would say; There must be many other ways of solving problems other then killing people.
Jacque Fresco
#52. It's harder to fall in love with a man when he's killing people.
Kim Harrison
#53. Most people will shy away from killing people they haven't been introduced to.
Terry Pratchett
#54. Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy
#55. You're late."
"Sorry. I was busy talking about my feelings and killing people.
Jennifer Estep
#56. Even if Douglas was trying to sacrifice me and harvest my creepy powers at the time, I feel like killing people for doing awful things is probably setting a bad precedent for dealing with negative behavior.
Lish McBride
#57. America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for ...
Cindy Sheehan
#58. Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?
Janet Lunn
#59. Just because you didn't torture him doesn't mean you weren't rough, but I know why you did it." I threaded my fingers through his hair. "Thank you for trying to protect me." The barest smile touched his mouth. "I prefer simply killing people who hurt you. Much less complicated that way.
Jeaniene Frost
#60. There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
Steven Spielberg
#61. Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.
George S. Patton
#62. What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Tom Clancy
#63. Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn't smoke and never would.
Dean Koontz
#64. Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.
Tsugumi Ohba
#65. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people.
Wafa Sultan
#66. What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people? Sylvie said.
Kate Atkinson
#67. Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
Arthur C. Clarke
#68. A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
Iggy Azalea
#69. Or maybe they're just keen on killing people. That's religion for you.
Terry Pratchett
#70. In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.
Chris Kyle
#71. When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
James Purefoy
#72. I dont get that
people going to war over religion. I dont know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if youre going to war over religion, now youre just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.
Richard Jeni
#73. He hated the idea of killing people he could not hate.
Ruth Ozeki
#74. I'm an angel of death. I don't need night school, woman. You should just give up on this detective shit and start killing people for a living. It's simple, honest work, and you ain't got the brains for anything else.
Ilona Andrews
#75. A comedy about killing people? Like, that is just so awful.
Anonymous
#76. If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?
Holly Black
#77. If you think killing people is a solution to a problem, I not only disagree with you but also I hate your perspective.
Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb
#78. Why do we kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?
Chris Berry
#79. And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.
Joe Walker
#80. Killing people was far easier than making polite chitchat.
Jennifer Estep
#81. This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Maynard James Keenan
#82. Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.
Debbie Harry
#83. The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.
Larry Flynt
#85. Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Muhammad Ali
#86. The main objection to killing people as a punishment ... is that killing people is wrong
Auberon Waugh
#87. I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear.
Caitlin Kittredge
#88. A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.
Michael Newdow
#89. If I were you, I would never tell ugly stories about ingenious ways of killing people, for you never can tell but that someone at the table may be tired of his or her nearest and dearest.
Jeff VanderMeer
#90. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
Wafa Sultan
#91. Obama once reportedly told his aides, [It] turns out I'm really good at killing people.
Jeremy Scahill
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. You can't just go around killing people.
You're right. You can't go around killing people.
Cassandra Clare
#95. You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?"
"You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money," Finn said. "Or as I like to call them - the good ole days.
Jennifer Estep
#96. Terry loved candlelight dinners and red wine. It was a nice contrast from work.
And killing people.
Jonas Eriksson
#97. Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Holly Near
#98. Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
Zach Braff
#99. It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.
Mick Ballou
Lawrence Block
#100. Science leads you to killing people.
Ben Stein
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