Home / Topics / Suicide Quotes

Suicide Quotes

Browse 2485 quotes about Suicide.

Suicide Quotes

“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

“Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.”

Moments Government Spiritual Individual Nations Moral Concerned Murder Suicide Commit That Moment Depriving

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”

People Ifs Trying Nations Suicide China Commit

Author:Mao Zedong

“I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.”

Has Beens Political Nations President Concerned Negative Aspect Suicide Ran Opponents Phenomenon Distinguished Campaigning Political Campaign Gerald Ford

Author:Jimmy Carter

“There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.”

Years Country Nations Highest Years Ago Suicide Rate Glasses Tricks Japan Thick Suicidal Lenses

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).”

Heart Country Nations Cases Resources Opposites Suicide Rate Illness London Medical Mental Illness Developing Outcomes Heart Attack Psychiatric

Author:Richard Bentall

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

Ifs Dies Politics Nations Answers Danger Approach Spring Destruction Suicide Expected All Time Civil War Discernment Freeman Finishers

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

Ifs Mean Children School Reading Nations Justice Deals Education Diversity Social Justice Suicide Prison Inequality Description More Money Bent Literacy

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.”

“Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.”

Believe Humans Government Age Life Is I Believe Nations Levels Dignity Suicide Innocent Human Life Rejects Permit Schemes Euthanasia Always Wrong Assisted Suicide

Author:Gary Bauer

“The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.”

Political Nations Policy Honor Suicide Commit Abandon Foreign Policy

Book:Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index

Source: Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index

“Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.”

Fall Left Nations Industry Letting Go Suicide Commit Ruins

Book:Schriften, reden, briefe ...

Source: Schriften, reden, briefe ...

“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.”

Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays