K Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with K. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Killing a tyrant only postpones tyranny. Focus on building a humane society, so that none of the kids ever winds up a tyrant.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.”
“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”
“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.”
“Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.”
“Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.”
“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.”
Source: Skins (animal stories, rights)
“Killing another human being is not something you get used to. It takes away their life and subtracts something from your own, a fine layer of your humanity.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.”
“Killing demons is like peeing on yourself; everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” Annr, guard, Zearlach city.”
“Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.”
Source: A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Killing ego is the process of passing through a scene of blurred vision unspeakably experienced beyond human senses.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.”
“Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.”
“Killing had been added, suddenly, to the list of what she was capable of. It had gone from unthinkable to possible. Was this how people tipped over into darkness?”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Killing him will not banish him from your dreams," said Cannoc. "I can assure you of that. Think on who you are, Jack Dory.”
Source: The Beatryce Prophecy
“Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”
Source: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
“Killing in the name of an imagined heaven leads all such silly sods straight to a real hell.”
“Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Killing in the name of religion is killing a religion.”
“Killing innocent people in the name of God is the highest insult to God.”
Source: World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
“Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.”
“Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.”
“Killing is bad even if that is time!”
Source: Scientific Computing in Python
“Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.”
Source: The dark side of Guy de Maupassant
“Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.”
“Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.”
“Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit or fun.”
“Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.”
“Killing is my thing,' he tells her. 'You should get your own thing.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook his head. 'It is the experience of another's life for certain, and often the experience of the loss of that life through the blood, slowly. It is again and again the experience when I sucked the blood from Lestat's wrist and felt his heart pound with my heart. It is again and again a celebration of that experience; because for vampires that is the ultimate experience.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Killing is not a real deal, rather it's witchcraft,
we fight with money, a pen and ideas”
Source: Sweetest song I know
“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
“Killing is not something one should have little regard for,' he replied. 'It should always affect you, no matter how many times you do it. It should always leave a mark. And if it doesn't, then I would have grave concerns about the individual.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“Killing is not something you do privately, in the space of your own head. It happens here.” She opened her arms, as though to embrace the whole world. “In the relationship between bodies…”
“It's the same with love,” she went on. “You're going at the whole thing as though it's a problem with you, inside of you, sealed off from the rest of the world. It's not. Love isn't a part of you or your lover. It's not something you can have, like a pile of gold or a pet pig. Love is this,” She said, gesturing into the emptiness between us. “The space between.”
“There's space everywhere,” I growled, “between everyone.”
“Don't be obtuse, Pyrre. It's the nature of the space that matters.”
Source: Skullsworn
“Killing is the payoff of war.”
“Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of”
Source: The Venice installation: United States Pavilion, the 44th Venice Biennale, May 27-September 30, 1990
“Killing is why I exist," she said finally. "It is my only love. I used to struggle with my temper, but now I embrace it. You cannot fathom how many I have slain, both mortal and Folk. Why should a little nothing like you be the end of me?"
"You know why," I said. "Because it would be a fitting conclusion."
She gave me the sort of look that reminded me of Razkarden when he sizes up a potential meal. The shadow in the room seemed to deepen, redden, and grow damp, a slippery damp I felt through my shoes. I only waited. "Well?" I said.
She seemed to deflate slightly, and the illusion vanished. "You wish to find the door to Death?" she said, a slyness entering her voice. "Very well. I will tell you how. But I must be allowed to depart this realm unharmed."
I could see she expected me to protest or bargain with her. "Done," I said.
Her lip curled. "Such a dull little thing," she said. "You have no spirit worth breaking, I see. You are not like your grandfather at all."
"And you are not as frightening as you think you are," I said.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
“Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.”
“Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”
“Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it”
“Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.”
Source: The Master's Daughter
“Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.”
“Killing makes me feel good.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Killing me still on the agenda, tough girl?"
I walked over to the desk. "Yup, right here next to buy Brendan a leash."
"Glad to know you have a sense of humour."
"I wasn't joking." I mumbled, knowing he would be able to hear me.”
Source: Cranberry Blood
“Killing more people won't help matters.”
“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
“Killing of an innocent, alike killing of humanity.”
Source: Sarhad Ke Us Paar
“Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is true of fishing, too. Many men fish and leave their victims to rot and stink. But what about the fish? Has he no rights - not to be romanticized as though he were a man - but real rights?”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west
“Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic”
Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy