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One had been dismissed — and subsequently executed — for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes — for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
r. a. salvatore— Homeland (1990) [Wizards of the Coast, 2005, ISBN 0-786-93953-2], p. 157
— Drizzt Do'Urden about his "friends" from Melee-Magthere
At the battle of Badr the Apostle of Allah gave me AbuJahl's sword, as I had killed him.
— Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
— Sunan Abu Dawud: Book 14, Number 2716
Narrated Abdullah: That he came across Abu Jahl while he was on the point of death on the day of Badr. Abu Jahl said, "You should not be proud that you have killed me nor I am ashamed of being killed by my own folk."
— Narrated by Abdullah
— Sahih Al-Bukhari: Volume 5, Book 59, Number 298.
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her.
hilaire belloc— 1907 Cautionary Tales, 'Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death'.
He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.
— Acts ofWorship,'Raisin Bread' (translated byJohn Bester,1989).
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
sitting bull— Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.
The idea that a game is anything more than a game… You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.
gary gygax— GameSpy interview, Pt. 1 (15 August 2004)
" When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset me was how children are getting abused simply because they are physically weaker and not capable of defending themselves – how they get raped, enslaved and killed. I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller."
gottfried helnwein— Interview by Brendan Maher, Start, Ireland, November 24, 2004
I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.
andrew johnson— Letter to his friend Colonel William G. Moore, complaining of Congressional investigations.... (1 May 1867)
Furthermore, all the Western politicians, intellectuals and journalists are obliged to pay homage and bow to the monument that commemorates those allegedly killed in the Nazi concentration camps. In other words, all should acknowledge the veracity of something that has not been proven! This is also one of the propaganda means being applied by the Zionists to portray themselves as the victims of persecution!
ali khamenei— January 31, 2002 statements to the Islamic World Media conference held in Tehran
I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...
leona lewis— Bang Showbiz, December 2007
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 24, pg.317
Shells used to come bursting on my bed at midnight, even though Nancy shared it with me; strangers in daytime would assume the faces of friends who had been killed... I could not use a telephone, I felt sick every time I travelled by train, and to see more than two new people in a single day prevented me from sleeping.
robert graves— Ch.26 On being at home in Harlech in 1919. During the First World War, the mental effects of war on the fighting men were called shell shock or neurasthenia — or dismissed altogether as cowardice. Graves describes very clearly symptoms of what would now be seen as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
silver bullet (SIL-vuhr BOOL-it) noun: A quick solution to a thorny problem. [From the belief that werewolves could be killed when shot with silver bullets.] "Writing code, he (Stuart Feldman) explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity."
— Survey: The Beast of Complexity; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 14, 2001.
I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
wilfred owen— 1918 'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).
The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed.
sergei akhromeyev— Quoted in "Iraq Rebuffs Iran on Peace Initiative", pA01, February 11, 1991, Rick Atkinson and Barton Gellman, Washington Post.
You take a 22-year-old American, you shoot at him all day long, you deprive him of sleep, you make him see his buddies being killed, he has their blood on his boots and blouse, and when you don't see perfection in his decisions you court-martial him? It's absurd.
paul hackett— Quoted by reporter Thomas Watkins for the Associated Press
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
curtis lemay— Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals (1988)
I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.
scott ritter— Interview with the Memphis Flyer
[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.
ali sistani— Iraqi cleric wants gays killed in "most severe way"
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There’s one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between “ideals,” and with luck they won’t have left their genes behind because they’ll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they’re too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
john brunner— context (8) “Isolation”
Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or ‘death professions.’
warren farrell— p. 105. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
Another Palestinian Mass Murder Attack... An attempted kidnapping and mass murder attack by Palestinian terrorists killing civilians in cold blood... Two Israeli civilians and seven Palestinians were killed...
charles foster johnson— April 9, 2008 [26]
Five kinds of animals are mischief-doers and can be killed even in the Sanctuary: They are the rat, the scorpion, the kite, the crow and the rabid dog.
— Hadith - Bukhari 4:531, Narrated by 'Aisha
The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.
alfred de zayas— UN experts urge Iraq to establish the whereabouts of the seven missing residents of Camp Ashraf [15]
By the gods I do not want the Galileans to be killed or beaten unjustly nor to suffer any other ill. I do, however, state that the god-fearing ( theosebeis ) should be preferred to them … honour should go to the gods and to the men and cities that worship them.
— As quoted in Julian the Apostate (1978), by G. W. Bowersock, Ch. 8 : The Puritanical Pagan, p, 83
It is the duty of the humor of any given nation in time of high crisis to attack the catastrophe that faces it in such a manner as to cause the people to laugh at it in such a way that they cannot die before they are killed.
— Lord Buckley, "H-Bomb" (1960), a comic monologue), as quoted in "It's Comedy! From Skit To Song To Satire" in The New York Times (27 October 1989)
I killed you?
— Who: Zhao
— Source: The Last Airbender (2010)
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