“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

“We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

Albert Camus book A Happy Death

“Ideas kill people.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

“No weapon is as dangerous as an idea. A weapon will kill you in that moment. A bad idea can kill you for a lifetime.”

Marcus Orelias (1993) American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”

Ben Bova (1932) American science fiction and science writer

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.”

Sarah Vowell The Wordy Shipmates

“Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

“The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist