#killing

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them. ↗

— William Clayton

#killing #humor

To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by Cloyce's depravity by watching him at work, I must be a scourge. To prevent time management technology from falling into the hands of authorities who, if not already corrupt, would be corrupted by it, I must be a scourge. Scourges aren't heroes. I had never imagined myself to be a hero, but never had I imagined I would be this. Scourges transgress against social and sacred order. A scourge went into darker territory than that. A scourge was not compelled to kill by mental imbalance or emotional confusion or selfish desire. A scourge made a carefully reasoned decision to kill in numbers that exceeded what was absolutely necessary to ensure self-preservation and the defense of the innocent. Even if he killed for the right reason, he was in rebellion against social order and commanding authority. Who scourges will be scourged. In fulfilling this dark role in Roseland, I would bring about my own death. Yet I knew I would not retreat from my decision. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#killing #murder #scourge #death

One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#killing-time #sin #time #inspirational

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#killing #art

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart. ↗

— Robert Fanney

#death #dream #killing #luthiel #change

Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. But he looked up at Quinn and performed a sort of salute. I owe you, Quinn." I'm sorry I didn't get him," Quinn answered. Sam shook his head. "Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone. ↗

— Michael Grant

#the-fayz #sam

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ↗

— Don Herold

#killing #knowing #not knowing #ourselves #unhappiness

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#beginnings #called #could #deaths #ended

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#hussein #killing #own #people #saddam

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#been #controversy #definitely #every #foremost