“I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure…”
Leona Lewis (1985) British singer-songwriter
Bang Showbiz, December 2007
“A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
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“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
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Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
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“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Crow and the Scarecrow", The New Yorker (date unknown); Further Fables for Our Time (1956). This is derived from Oscar Wilde's statement "All men kill the thing they love..."
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“You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
The Hairless Mexican (1927)
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George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Speech at the Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston, Massachusetts (7 June 1945), quoted in The Last Days of Patton (1981), p. 85, by Ladislas Farago and The Patton Papers: 1940-1945 (1974), p. 721, edited by Martin Blumenson.
“I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.”
Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago
Source: Doctor Zhivago
