Killing is an inherent part of the human experience. It’s a necessary evil, something that must be done in order to protect those we love or to protect ourselves from harm. Here are some quotes about killing that might give you a new perspective on the matter.
Quotes About Killing
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
― Tom Robbins,
I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn’t have achieved anything.
— Sebastian Faulks
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can’t make a living.
— Sherwood Anderson
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
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
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.
— Peter Singer
Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don’t!
— Phyllis Chesler
Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.
— Pope Francis
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
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
He’s not a killer. He just wins… Thoroughly
— Orson Scott Card
Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
— Pat Barker
It’s bad enough wasting time without killing it.
— Norton Juster
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
— Pat Conroy
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people,
— Penn Jillette
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
— Paulo Coelho
We’d all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
— Ralph Fiennes
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
— Rashida Jones
Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?
— Raphael Lemkin
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
Conclusion
Quotes about killing can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Some people may find them morbid or unsettling, while others may see them as a way to reflect on the act of taking a life. Whatever your opinion, it is important to remember that these quotes are just that—quotes. They are not meant to be taken literally, but rather used as a way to start a conversation or provoke thought.
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