Indira Gandhi
Politician
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."
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Assassins
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
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"Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid."
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"The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin."
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