“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.” MenHumansBornHuman BeingsExistenceViolenceConditionsNormalEatingConscienceFellowsKillingFleshFellow ManBarbarismAbhorrent Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?” IfsKnowsDoeDifferentEndsHandsNamesEasyEasierConscienceMurderKillingRetributionDifferent Names Author:Neal Shusterman
“A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.” FirstsTogetherEnemyFlowerConscienceArmyKillingCrushFirst Crush Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death” LongConscienceKillingImmortalReally Long Book:The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.” MenWayShouldLongEnoughConscienceHarderKillingLengthPipeKilling A Man Author:Hugh Howey
“He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.” ThinkingMenWayShouldLongEndsEnoughShowsIndividualUnderstandingGunConscienceHarderKillingRoundsHipsPocketsLengthForbiddenPipeIndividual LifeDeputiesUnderstanding WhyKilling A Man Author:Hugh Howey
“The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience” WellsGodSpiritualitySidesInterestPowerfulHealingDemocracyMovementProveConscienceConsequenceKillingOngoingAlliancesInterfaithSustaining Author:Bill Moyers
“Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.” PeopleHumansLawSufferingOrderNamesHeavenChurchCryBrotherConscienceSilentKillingSoldierContraryEach DayCatholicismImmoralObligedRepressionSubordinatesAbomination Author:Oscar Romero
“It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.” PeopleDoeStatesReasonSupportMilitaryDutyConscienceNotesKillingRefuseActiveCuriousBureaucracyExemption Author:Karl Hess