23 quotes found
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
“Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no en...”
“For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generationsthe casualties can never be fully counted.Every war, no matter how...”
“If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and children of others, then render tha...”
“You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.”
“The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.”
“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”
“The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai”
“A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.”
“I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak, men fight with men when they meet - men of different races - but their weapons are first for th...”
“One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.”
“And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?”
“If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.”
“[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.”
“Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can't see it. When you die, that heavy blood filled essence will sink to the bottom of the earth where you w...”
“I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.”
“Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed, but with appetite now, the ham and biscuits which he had disdained in the morning. Even ...”
“On hands and knees the figure comes pacing along beside the wall that flanks the patio, lithe, sinuous, knife in mouth perpendicular to its course. In moonlight and out of it, as each successive ar...”
“Killing people isn't progress.”
“Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.”
