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Letter "K" » killing
«Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.»
«There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
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«War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.»
«Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.»
«There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.»
«The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
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«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
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«Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
dying, killing, patriots, talk of, The Patriot
«So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
example, governments, individuals, kill, killing, killings, occasionally, private, so long
«To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
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