#killing

I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin. ↗

— Iain Pears

#doctrine #evil #good #injustice #killing

Our favorite games were killing. Our favorite books were death. It had been beaten into us: God is love. Not the parched face and gnarled capes across a stick body; jittering in the nude sky, we couldn't see trying to touch us for the blood in our eyes. ↗

— Joseph Bathanti

#catholicism #death #god-is-love #jittering #killing

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious. ↗

— Brian Jacques

#killing #life #life

In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#congress #darfur #dozens #groups #high

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#development #farming #fetus #harvesting #human

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#killing #know #living #more #peace

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#about #ethical #giants #infants #killing

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#dealing #easily #give #going #interests

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#central #children #far #film #get

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that. ↗

— Brett Favre

#animal #being #couple #escape #get