Jean Rostand (1894–1977) French writer
See also "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." (misattributed to Joseph Stalin)
“Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.”
— Frank E. Peretti, book House
Source: House
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Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Credited to Shaw in the lead in to the mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) and other recent works, but this or slight variants of it are also sometimes attributed to W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, and Oscar Wilde. It might possibly be derived from Shaw's statement in John Bull's Other Island (1907): "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
Another possibility is that it is derived from Shaw's characteristic of Mark Twain: "He has to put things in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang him believe he is joking."
Variants:
If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
Disputed
“Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?”
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.
“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings
Source: Burnt Offerings
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
"I'm starting to think we have a problematic issue of personal philosophy here."
Jordan Kyle and Jace Herondale, pg. 27-29
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.”
Matthew Stover book Traitor
Jacen Solo, p. 65
Traitor (2002)