“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't”
Quotes about killing
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“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”
Source: Cerulean Sins
Source: Oh My Goth
Source: Magic Breaks
Source: Body
Epigrams
“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too.. but I've never had that kind of courage.”
Source: Mercy
“If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.”
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
“You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.”
The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)
Variant: You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
“You awful hard to kill, Anita.'
'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.”
Source: Guilty Pleasures
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”
Source: The Princess Bride
Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“I had as well be killed running as die standing”
“If I had known it was harmless
I would have killed it myself.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 6 (p. 94)
Source: Magic Rises
“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”
Source: Double Indemnity
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Context: "I love things made out of animals," Sedaris says, holding a knife with a hoof for a handle. "It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.'"
Source: Magic Slays
Source: Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust