A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.
Ramman Kenoun

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
Arthur Miller

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?
Jose Canseco

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
J. D. Hayworth

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
Charles S. Dutton

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris Murdoch

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
Calista Flockhart

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
Penn Jillette

Every shot that kills ricochets.
Gilbert Parker

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham