Kitty Kelley Quotes

People can be so heartless and dirty.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

People are ruthless, man.

I can be a cruel person.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Anybody can kill anybody.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

He can leave more dead bodies in the field with less remorse than any politician I ever knew.

Ruthlessness is not something that comes easily.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

I don't have a gun, but if I did, I would shoot a baby deer in the mouth and feel nothing.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?