Quotes about killing
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“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.”

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.

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“When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.”

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Gatsby Girls

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“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Tithe

Laurell K. Hamilton photo
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Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
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Jim Butcher photo
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“Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
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“Hesitation will get you killed.”

Source: Hit List

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“Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

Variant: There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
Source: V for Vendetta (1989)

“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

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“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

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“You've got passion to kill but you need to find passion to live.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

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“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

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“I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart [With Headphones]

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Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
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Steven Wright photo

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

I Have A Pony (1985)

Robert Jordan photo

“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 November 1990)

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“its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself”

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

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“So you’ll just kill anyone who frightens you. Who could hurt you.”
“Well…yes.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

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“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

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“To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

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“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”

Chelsea Cain (1972) American journalist and writer

Source: Kill You Twice

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“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

2000s, Kudlow & Cramer interview (2003)

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Tony Benn photo

“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”

Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician

Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s

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