“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”
“If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.”
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Nemesis
“He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 62.
“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Comments at Mass (11 September 1994), quoted in Calvin Sims (1994-10-06) "Villain or Hero? Pinochet Is Still Viewed as Both in Chile" New York Times
1990s
“Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.”
How to kill yourself like a man. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide
The Best Page in the Universe
See also "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." (misattributed to Joseph Stalin)
From an interview. Reported in The Vegetarian Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 2 https://books.google.it/books?id=PjugAAAAMAAJ, 1907, p. 22.
