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We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these bro...

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The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the effici...

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On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?”“Still the con...

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To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent other...

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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A wom...

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Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about...

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I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak...

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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...

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You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

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Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am gla...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, bu...

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We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal product...

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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the ...

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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such fre...

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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first...

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Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through ...

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I cannot kill someone, he thought.

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Perse...

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Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can't see i...

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Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some brig...

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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Mark TwainFollowing the Equator: A Journey Around the World

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with bloo...

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We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can ...

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Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human...

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Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only...

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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

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These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.''That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because al...

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Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind,...

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Code of Claw

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...

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The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must b...

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Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook ...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under ...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spea...

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There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.""A...

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One of us," said Malcolm, "is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds...

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