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I am gonna kill Bill. Kill Bill volume II 2004 starring Uma Thurman & David Carradine & Lucy Lui & Daryl Hannah & Gordon Lui & Michael Madsen & Vivica A Fox et al, director Quentin Tarantino
I’m calling you a killer. A natural born killer. You always have been and you always will be. ibid. Bill to Bride
If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him. George Carlin
So this next piece of material, like most good ideas, is fairly simple: it’s just a list of people who ought to be killed. George Carlin, on stage
In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That’s why there are so many subway murders; no-one has a car. George Carlin
If I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews. Bill Hicks
They’re killing children! How many children were at Waco? They’re killing children! Bill Hicks
Bob’s microphone continues to record while he is in the bathroom: ‘What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course.’ Robert Durst, interview The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst VI: What the Hell Did I Do? 2015
Kill anything that you happen on. Kill the Buddha if you happen to meet him … Kill your parents, or relatives if you happen to meet them. Only then can you be free, not bound by material things, and absolutely free and at ease. I-Hsuan, recorded conversations
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
You can’t drive such creatures away. The best thing is to kill them. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot starring Stephen Brennan & Barry McGovern & Johnny Murphy & Sam McGovern et al, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg
The best thing would be to kill me. ibid.
There are would-be murderers all round the world who want to kill you and me and themselves because they’re motivated by what they think is the highest ideal ... The elephant in the room: an elephant called Religion. The suicide bomber is convinced that in killing for his God, he will be fast-tracked to a special martyr’s heaven. Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil? The God Delusion, Channel 4 2006
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. George Orwell
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-86, The Second Sex, 1949
O cease! must hate and death return?
Cease! must men kill and die? Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, 1822
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Percy Bysshe Shelley
What kind of God does that – kills innocent children? Penn & Teller, Bullshit s2e6: The Bible: Fact or Fiction? 2004
Sometimes you kill someone to kill yourself or kill a part of yourself. Stephen Griffiths, the Crossbow Cannibal
I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I love all that blood. Ricardo Munoz Ramirez
I’ll fucking kill you! I’ll fucking kill you! Boardwalk Empire s3e3: Bone for Tuna, drug dealer, HBO 2012
I’ll kill you, bitch. You crazy cunt. The Sopranos s4e3: Christopher starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Ralph to Janice, HBO 2002
Let’s spare the awkwardness – I killed my wife ... I killed her aunt too ... And the mailman. At that point I had to fully commit. The Sopranos s6e14: Stage 5, oncologist/prisoner to John in prison hospital
I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? Glenn Beck, responding to question, ‘What would people do for $50 million’ May 17th 2005
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo is on a mission to investigate the science of killing. He wants to find a method that is unquestionably humane. And to do so he will delve into one of the darkest areas of science – his aim is to try and understand what it feels like to die by execution. Horizon: How to Kill a Human Being, BBC 2008
Fifty-five countries in the world use execution as the ultimate punishment. But the killing of prisoners has long been the issue of controversy. ibid.
There are about 600 murders in the UK each year. That’s around 2 per day. And globally about 50 people are murdered every hour. Murder appals and repels us but it also fascinates. So what makes people murder? Are some people born to kill or are the driven to it by circumstance? The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide, narrator Michael Mosley, BBC 2017
There are different types of murderer … mainly reactive, compulsive, then there are the cold-blooded ones. ibid.
Psychopath: ‘Almost no activity: there was no difference in the way they processed emotional and neutral images.’ ibid.
Another type of killer: those who suffer from schizophrenia. ibid.
It seemed obvious that a violent unloving childhood had played in crucial part in creating a killer: the question was, How? ibid.
I’ve never killed a man, but I’ve read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction. Clarence Darrow
Why don’t we kill him? Ray Donovan s1e1: The Bag or the Bat starring Liev Schreiber & Paul Malcomson & Jon Voight & Eddie Marson & Dash Mihok & Steven Bauer et al, Ezra, Showtime 2013
You go near my family, I’ll fucking kill ya. ibid. Donovan to Mickey
I want you to kill my father. Ray Donovan s1e7: New Birthday, Ray to Sully
I’m not killing my father. Ray Donovan s1e11: Bucky Fucking Dent, Ray to Ezra