Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich."
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Killing
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James A. Baldwin
Writer
"It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you."
Damian Marley
Musician
"Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself."
Jane Goodall
Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
"If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls."
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"Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept."
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"When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing."
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"By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured"
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"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
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"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."
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"When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it."
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"I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all."
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"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
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"As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose."
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"John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"Killing the dog does not cure the bite."
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"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."
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"Referees and linesmen are killing teams."
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"The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind."
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"I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss."
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"Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself."
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"Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?"
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"
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"There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing."
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