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Neil Gaiman Author
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"If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
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"anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]"

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Killing

"Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler."

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