Quotessence
Home / Topics / Killing Quotes

Killing Quotes

Browse 2221 quotes about Killing.

Related topics

PeopleIfsMenThinkingWarWayKnowsWorldWantHumansShouldAnimalChildrenBelieveDoeEndsNeedsKilling Each OtherDiesHas BeensMurderYearsKindMeanTryingInnocentGivingCountrySaidFirstsWellsFightingViolencePersonsDyingIdeasTime To KillDoneStillsFeelsReasonEvilNamesGuyHateLongSoulDifferentGunLittlesMadeProblemSoldierHelpingKilling ItKilling YourselfLawEnemyKilling MyselfWould BeAmericaEnoughI CanMayRealStatesHardHurtMightSuicideGovernmentKidsLooksSometimesUseArtAbortionCareHuman BeingsJusticePoliticalTerroristTwoBlackBloodDifferencesEasyHandsJobsLifeMatterMindPresidentSeemsStoriesTerrorismBabyBrotherCausesDeathmore

Killing Quotes

“I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks, there were always crows, particularly at certain times of the year. And they're very aggressive, very visible and loud. They're not at all likable, but they have to be dealt with. They are part of the picture, the art in the morning. You cannot deny their reality.”

YearsArtRealityCertainWalksMorningBirdKillingDenyLoudVisibleAggressiveCrowPredatoryMorning WalkKilling Others
Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Create image

“It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.”

PeopleLittlesDiesDifficultPoorClassMillionsMiddleEffectsPlanetsHarderClimateSpeciesKillingClimate ChangeDrivingMiddle ClassPairsUsualPowerlessScrewsAccustomedExtinctionBreedingScrew UpsArcticIndirect
Author:Dale Jamieson
Create image

“I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."”

IfsKnowsYearsTwoEnoughUseFoundHoursGoneFourCostThousandYears AgoDollarsKillingHolesTensionWheelsTwo YearsBuriedWarningNutsWireManualsMoronBucketsTippingKilling YourselfOvalTwo Years AgoTractorsTorque
Author:P. J. O'Rourke
Create image

“President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan that kill women and children. He meets with his advisers every Tuesday morning and signs extrajudicial killings. To me, those are not the actions of a peace person.”

HumansChildrenPersonsWarActionPresidentLibertyMorningSupportRightsKillingHuman RightsRemoveAfghanistanPresident ObamaPakistanCivil LibertiesTuesdayDronesAdviserTuesday Morning
Author:Mairead Corrigan
Create image

“The issue I have is that the cooking techniques are up for questioning, today more than ever before. If you waterbath beef at 22-degrees for 12 hours, it may taste fantastic, but if you don't cook food at a high enough temperature, you risk not killing the bacteria. Things like that make me nervous of venturing into it.”

IfsMayEnoughTodayHoursIssuesRiskTasteDegreesCookingKillingTechniqueNervousFantasticCooksQuestioningTemperatureBeefBacteria
Author:Gordon Ramsay
Create image

“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.”

PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years
Author:Bashar al-Assad
Create image

“Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.”

PeopleWarGovernmentDifferencesConflictSpringKillingCivil WarGenocideSyriaUprisingArab SpringInterstate
Author:Susan Rice
Create image

“What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.”

RolesGroupsExamplePositionHigherAuthorityConcernedCourtKillingVariousCriticalUnitsAccusedMarineCommandersBattlefieldsAtrocitiesProceedingMassacresRanking
Author:James Mattis
Create image

“If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.”

IfsShouldHumansMeanStatesReasonProblemBigsAbleSpeakRightsEconomicRelationMeetingsWesternKillingHuman RightsOilRussiaJournalistGasFriendlySincereWarningConferencesSuppressionBig ProblemsOil And GasWarning Signs
Author:Vaclav Havel
Create image

“In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct. For instance, almost every conflict since then has involved the logistics of perception, including the war in Lebanon, where Israel made use of cheap drones in order to track Yasser Arafat with the aim of killing him.”

WayHas BeensMadeBookWarUseSeemsOrderInvolvedConflictPerceptionAimKillingIncludingTrackIsraelInstanceDronesLebanonLogisticsArafat
Author:Paul Virilio
Create image

“You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us.”

WorldTwoRememberPayTaxesPercentKillingRateAverageCorporateCorporationsLayersSmall Business
Author:Paul Ryan
Create image

“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”

GivingDifferentCountryAgeWantedFilmYoungReflectionHollywoodKillingTricksInnocentEducateYoung AgeWayneAmbivalence
Author:Raoul Peck
Create image

“The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.”

WorldMadeWaterCompanyRightsSeeingDyingNormalDrinkingEnvironmentalKillingOilNativeNative AmericanCatastropheIndigenousMichiganPoisoningHorrificRemovalMiningDrinking WaterPipelineDakotaAppalachiaFrackingNorth Dakota
Author:Alexander Weinstein
Create image

“[Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and American personnel and citizens. There's supposed to be no way to capture them. The "kill list" is calculated in the "terror Tuesdays" at the White House every week, where the President and his advisors - including CIA - "nominate" people to be on the kill list.”

PeopleWayHousePresidentWhiteLevelsWeekSubjectsCitizensThreatKillingIncludingTerrorListsSupposed To BeWhite HouseAlsCaptureCiaAl QaedaHigh LevelTuesdayPersonnelAdvisors
Author:Medea Benjamin
Create image

“There is a real attempt to sanitize the CIA killings and to glorify the CIA and to give it a new face. That's what happened with Zero Dark Thirty, that's what happened with Michelle Obama... When she appeared my jaw dropped; I couldn't believe it... These were really a disgusting propaganda films, glorifying the role of the CIA.”

GivingBelieveRealFilmFacesDarkRolesHappenedKillingPropagandaThirtyZeroDisgustingCiaGlorifyNew FacesZero Dark Thirty
Author:Medea Benjamin
Create image

“As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.”

IfsShouldBelieveLongCountryI BelieveLinesCrimeEuropeRedCrossesWesternKillingCommitOur CountryHonourWestern EuropeMutilationRed Lines
Author:Geert Wilders
Create image

“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.”

PeopleWorldWarHappensThreeNamesCitiesMillionsEternalCreatingRacismProgramSlaveryPrisonSouthKillingDebtAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThis DayBitternessDestroyingQuartersWorld War IiFlagsWorld War IThreatenedHostilityConfederateBrewingConfederate Flag
Author:David Swanson
Create image