“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.” PeopleFirstsHumansChildrenWholeParentUnderstandingBornHuman BeingsRaceSawsFourDoorsPlanetsBrotherFitMurderFilledKillingRageViolentMortalsJealousBrutalApartmentBloodyIntuitiveCrowdedCapsGenesisCainMetaphoricalAbel Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files
“The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.” HumansSaidHuman BeingsBenefitsResearchKillingCellsExplorationStemStem CellStem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cells Author:Tom DeLay
“The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.” IfsMenHumansWellsPurposeHuman BeingsHalfEnemyFeetLandFaultsKillingConvincedPeculiarUniformsBulletsCostumesDutchEnslavementProximityCallousnessCharades Author:Robert Charles Wilson
“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
“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.” HumansCountryHuman BeingsDealsViolenceCapableKillingPopulationWoundsPermitDistributionEscapingFirearms Author:Margaret Mead
“I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.” KnowsLifeBelieveHumansChildrenHardAgeDeathDiesBeliefHuman BeingsKnow HowViolenceDyingDutyRight NowProtectAngerKillingDon't BelieveViolentHuman LifeHard TimesPrizeNobelNon ViolenceProtectorNon ViolentNobel Peace PrizeWording Author:Betty Williams
“I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.” IfsWantTryingHumansMeanHuman BeingsMoralTaughtRaisedKillingDecentCombat Author:Karl Marlantes
“Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.” HumansRealPurposeIndividualSocialHuman BeingsSocietyKillingSakeSatireIndividualismReal HumanSocial Being Author:D. H. Lawrence
“What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.” HumansChildrenDoneStoriesUsedHumanityHuman BeingsCommonBloodBrotherLike YouSacredKillingStrikesChild Of GodYour BrotherCainCommon HumanityAbelCain And Abel Author:Allan Boesak