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source: Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo, Philippines. President (2001- : Arroyo), Philippines. Office of the Press Secretary “A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches: 2007”

topic: Political, Killing, Term

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

- Guy Pearce

topic: Running, People, Killing

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

- H. Beam Piper

source: "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

topic: Texas, Excess, Killing

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

- Hal Turner

topic: Use, Killing, Rescue, Use Of Force

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

topic: People, Killing, Innocent, Ethnic Cleansing, Bahrain

Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.

- Harold Ford, Jr.

topic: Killing, Terrorist, Cheaper

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Killing, Made, Shots

You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

- Henri

topic: Killing, Strokes

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

- Hermann Goring

topic: Action, Murder, Killing, Goering

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

- Hiro Mashima

topic: Peace, Want, Killing, Pacifism, Killing Someone

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

- Holly Black

topic: People, Corny, Killing

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

- Holly Near

source: "Foolish Notion" (song) (1981)

topic: People, Evil, Killing, Killing It, Killing Someone

There will be killing till the score is paid.

- Homer

topic: Killing, Score

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

- Howard Lyman

topic: Compassion, Soul, Killing, Slaughterhouses, Eating Animals

Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

- Hsuan Hua

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Killing, Buddha Nature

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

- Ian Hacking

topic: People, Bombs, Killing

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

- Imre Kertész

source: "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

topic: Long, Way, Killing

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

- Isaac Hanson

topic: Thinking, Saving, Killing, Downloading Music

Killing rips the soul apart.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Rip, Soul, Killing

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Death, Believe, Killing

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

- James Nicoll

source: Usenet article, 2005.

topic: People, Might, Killing, Unintended Consequences

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Soul, Killing, Conservation

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Meaning Of Life, World, Killing

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

- Jeff Lindsay

source: Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.131, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: People, Killing, Newspapers

Killing makes me feel good.

- Jeff Lindsay

topic: Feel Good, Killing, Feels

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

- Jenny Holzer

topic: Proud, Killing, Be Proud

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Safety, Healthy, Killing, Health And Safety

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

- Jerry Kramer

topic: November, Patient, Killing, Killing Myself

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Use, Killing, Infant

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

- Jim Steinman

topic: Killing, Time To Kill

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

- Joe Perry

topic: Killing, More Time, Glad, Killing Myself

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

- Joe Strummer

topic: Honey, Bees, Killing

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

- John Boehner

topic: Jobs, People, Killing

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

- John McGahern

topic: Attitude, Kissing, Killing, Offence

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

- John Owen

source: John Owen (1842). “The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging”, p.9

topic: Sin, Killing

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

- John Owen

topic: Sin, Killing, Daily Work

Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Way, Vegan, Killing

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

- Joseph Albo

source: Joseph Albo (1929). “ספר העקרים: book of principles”, [Philadelphia

topic: Animal, Blood, Killing, Shedding Blood

I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other.

- Joshua

topic: Done, Killing, Enjoy

Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.

- Joy Behar

source: Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion

topic: Weight, Skinny, Killing, Die Young, Fat Women

Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.

- Joyce Beatty

topic: Gone, Common, Killing

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

- Judy Collins

topic: Stronger, Gone, Killing

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

- Kalki Krishnamurthy

source: "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.

topic: Nine, Killing, Should

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

- Karl Marlantes

source: Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Marine, Taught, Killing

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

- Katherine Neville

source: Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.57, Open Road Media

topic: Way, Inspired, Killing

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

- Keith Henson

topic: Games, Play, Killing, Primates

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

- Kobayashi Issa

topic: Mosquitoes, Praying, Killing

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

- Kris Kristofferson

topic: People, Killing, Reason

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

- Laini Taylor

topic: Fighting, Looks, Killing

Right here, you're killing me.

- Laura Kinsale

source: Laura Kinsale (2014). “The Prince of Midnight”, p.144, Open Road Media

topic: Killing

Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.

- Lilith Saintcrow

topic: Ideas, Killing

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

- Louis de Bernieres

source: FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Jul 11, 2011

topic: Ideas, Care, Killing

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

- Louis MacNeice

source: Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.93, Faber & Faber

topic: Envy, Killing, Motive

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

- Louis MacNeice

topic: Stones, Killing, Kill Me, Spills

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

- Madame Roland

topic: Mind, Amusement, Killing, Fondness

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

- Magic Johnson

topic: Basketball, Killing, Said

Boxing is not for killing each other.

- Manny Pacquiao

topic: Boxing, Killing

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

- Manny Pacquiao

topic: Philippines, Killing, Dangerous

I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it

- Marg Helgenberger

topic: Meat, Down And, Killing, Packages

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

- Marguerite Duras

topic: Drinking, Thinking, Killing, Killing Yourself

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

- Mario Puzo

topic: Jobs, Hard Times, Killing, Mere Mortals, Having A Hard Time

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

- Marion Barry

topic: Silly, Killing, Crime, Really Stupid, Very Stupid

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, People, Killing

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

- Mary Tyler Moore

topic: Choices, Killing, Given

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

- Masanobu Fukuoka

topic: World, Killing, Wells

The time I kill is killing me.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Time, Time Management, Killing

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

- Maxim Gorky

topic: Dog, Killing, Masters

You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.

- Michael Scheuer

topic: Done, Killing

Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

- Michelle Sagara

topic: Effort, Opinion, Killing, Belive, Killing Someone

Killing you and what you represent is a statement. I''m not a hundred percent sure exactly what it''s saying

- Mickey Knox

topic: Killing, Hundred

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Crazy, Killing

Killing is the payoff of war.

- Morley Safer

topic: War, Killing, Payoff

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

- Myriam Miedzian

source: Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.133, Lantern Books

topic: Men, Female, Killing, Female Power

Simply put, killing healthy or treatable animals is immoral.

- Nathan Winograd

topic: Animal, Healthy, Killing

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

- Neil Sheehan

topic: Upset, Killing, Destruction

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Men, Fishing, Killing

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

- Norton Juster

topic: Wasting Time, Killing, Enough, Killing It, Phantom Tollbooth

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Winning, Killers, Killing

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

topic: Soul, Pieces, Killing

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

- Pat Barker

source: Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.30, Penguin

topic: Murder, Killing

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

- Pat Conroy

topic: Memories, Bears, Killing

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Hate, Killing, Time To Kill

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people,

- Penn Jillette

topic: Differences, People, Killing

From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

- Pete du Pont

topic: Fields, Gulags, Killing, Concentration Camp, Cambodia

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

- Pete Wentz

source: Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Killing, Killing Yourself

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

- Peter Singer

source: "Practical Ethics". Book by Peter Singer, 1979.

topic: Sometimes, Killing, Infant, Defective

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

- Phyllis Chesler

topic: Time, Waste, Killing, Wasting My Time

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

- Pope Francis

topic: Religious, Killing, Humans, Pretext, Fundamentalism

Even the young are killing each other.

- Pope John Paul I

topic: Killing, Young, Killing Each Other

And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

- R.L. LaFevers

topic: Killing

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

- Ralph Fiennes

topic: Believe, People, Killing, Killing Each Other

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

- Raphael Lemkin

source: "Weekly Update for October 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2014.

topic: Killing, Crime, Individual

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

- Rashida Jones

topic: Goal, Body, Killing, Chemotherapy

That's sad," said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Hunting, Shame, Killing

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

- Raymond Chandler

topic: Dying, Killing, Time To Kill

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

- Richard Hell