We killed a great many of them. Now all is quiet. I could not be happier. Napoleon Bonaparte
Robb Stark: I’ll kill them all. Every one of them. I’ll kill them all.
Catelyn Stark: My boy, they have your sisters. We have to get the girls back ... and then we will kill them all. Game of Thrones s1e10: Fire and Blood, HBO 2011
Killing’s the thing you love. Just like me. Game of Thrones s2e9: Blackwater ***** barbarian to warrior bloke with bird
Stannis is a killer. The Lannisters are killers. Your father was a killer. Your brother is a killer. Your sons will be killers some day. The world is built by killers. So you’d better get used to looking at them. ibid. Sandor Clegane
Is it possible to program somebody to kill and without them realising it? Derren Brown: The Experiments: The Assassin, Channel 4 2011
Under the 1952 Hypnotism Act we cannot broadcast the entire process of hypnotic induction. ibid.
In reality the mixture of my confidence and their expectation of that’s what they are supposed to do is enough for them to ... go back under. ibid.
Are they genuinely under some influence or playing along? ibid.
All four commit a highly dangerous act. ibid.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire
Let’s kill ’em all. Courage Under Fire 1996 starring Denzel Washington & Matt Damon & Meg Ryan & Lou Diamond Phillips & Michael Moriarty & Bronson Pinchot & Seth Gilliam & Regina Taylor & Zeljko Ivanek & Scott Glenn & Tim Guinee & Tim Ranson & Sean Astin & Ned Vaughn et al, director Edward Zwick, Washington opening scene
There’s no livin’ with a killin’. There’s no goin’ back from one. Shane 1953 starring Alan Ladd & Jean Arthur & Van Heflin & Brandon deWilde & Jack Palance & Ben Johnson & Edgar Buchanan & Emile Meyer & Elisha Cook & Douglas Spencer & John Dierkes & Ellen Corby & Paul McVey & John Miller et al
You will read a hundred military manuals and you’ll never see that four-letter word kill. You will talk to military psychiatrists and psychologists and they will never use the word kill and they do not want to talk about killing. And that is a pathology. It is dysfunctional. David Grossman, author On Killing
I don’t feel I’m living unless I’m killing myself. Russell Hoban
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams. William S Burroughs
Kill if you must, but never hate:
Man is but grass, and hate is blight,
The sun will scorch you soon or late,
Die wholesome then, since you must fight. Robert Graves
It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary. Gerry Adams
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Mahatma Gandhi
If it bleeds, we can kill it. Arnold Schwartzenegger
Kill them all; God will recognise his own. Arnald-Amaury, French abbot of Citaeux
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Jean Rostand
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. Myrlie Evers
That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche
Thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20:13
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Deuteronomy 13:9&10
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; Deuteronomy 13:15-17
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. Deuteronomy 17:5-7
And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself. I Samuel 19:1&2
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. II Samuel 12:9-11
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. I Kings 11:40
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. I Kings 21:19
Without shedding of blood is no remission. Hebrews 9:22
For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah’s Sovereignty), but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals in the earth. Koran 5:32
Mickey agreed to an unprecedented interview on The Mike Wallace Show ... ‘I have killed no men that in the first place didn’t deserve killing.’ Mobsters: Mickey Cohen, 2008
It doesn’t matter ... I’ll kill them all. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 1966 starring Aldo Giuffre & Mario Brega & Luigi Pistilli & Al Mulock & Antonio Casas & Anonio Casale & Sergio Mendizabal & John Bartha & Claudio Scarchilli & Sandro Scarchilli et al, director Sergio Leone, The Ugly
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Howard Zinn
I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, ‘Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.’ William Shakespeare, I Henry IV II iv 116
The first thing we do let’s kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare, The First Part of the Contention II Henry VI IV ii 78, Butcher
Kill me to-morrow; let me love to-night! William Shakespeare, Othello V ii 80
Murder’s out of tune,
And sweet revenge grows harsh. ibid. V ii 113
She like a liar gone to burning hell;
’Twas I that killed her. ibid. V ii 127