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“He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.”

Ifs Want Despair Capable Overcoming Instinct Killing Satan

Book:Night

Source: Night

“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

May Two Risk Capable Killing Bottles Scorpions

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.”

Humans Country Human Beings Deals Violence Capable Killing Population Wounds Permit Distribution Escaping Firearms

Author:Margaret Mead

“I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.”

Ifs World Mind Humans Littles Persons States Seems Hate Dies Born Building Creating Capable Killing Pity Destroying Pitiful If You Love Me Born To Die

Book:Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

Source: Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

“Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.”

Mean Lying Capable Concepts Killing Cheating Bullshit

Author:Ben Folds

“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.”

Believe Kind Persons Mother I Believe Steps Happened Fool Capable Killing Opening Remarks Hesitation

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

May Two Ends States Risk Position Civilization Capable Killing Affair Bottles Anticipate Great Power Scorpions

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

Want Stills Running America House Pay Support Streets Taxes Capable Machines Murder Lifetime Killing Gestures Amazed Loving Life

Book:David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame

Source: David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame

“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”

Ifs Said Hurt Weapons Capable Killing Variety Jace Kill Me City Of Glass

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.”

Ifs Way Should Might Animal Prove Eating Capable Killing Silly Cruelty Reasonable Gaps Endeavor Hunting Abstraction Eating Animals

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer