Frank Peretti Quotes

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

What right have the rulers of nations to unsheath the sword of destruction, and to let loose the demons of desolation upon mankind, whenever caprice or pride, ambition or avarice, shall prescribe?

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

Wars of extermination are demoralizing and wicked.

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

War is the father and king of all.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Use a proper degree of terror …kill evey man Kaffir…if possible the Chief should be destroyed.

I killed Muslims by every means possible. Yet it is sometimes a pity to waste bullets for this. The best way is to gather all of these dogs and throw them into wells and then fill the wells with big and heavy stones. as I did. I gathered all of the women, men and children, threw big stones down on top of them. They must never live on this earth.

History is a bath of blood.

We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks], and then proceeded in the work of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stones and dust, and when the villages became untenable and the inhabitants fled from them into the fields, bullets and bayonets completed the work.

One kills a man, one is an assassin, one kills millions, one is a conqueror, one kills everybody, one is a god.