Quotes
Quotes about Killing
Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. â¢Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. â¢Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. â¢Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. â¢Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
