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“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” Elie Wiesel, Night
“Killing rips the soul apart.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“'patriotism,' i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; but, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.” William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
“Everything kills everything else in some way.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Human beings didn’t evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing’s the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we’d be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Liberty . . . is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Would you like me to do it now? . . . Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is...” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives...” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.” Jack London, The Call of the Wild
“you mustn't believe in killing . . . You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.” Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold will tempt unto a close exploit of death?” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” Carl Sagan, Contact
“When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
“Trouble with mice is you always kill ’em.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I had as well be killed running as die standing.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.” George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbour, and such is the practice all over the world.” Voltaire, Candide

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