Jim Butcher Quotes

Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

People ask me if I would shoot and kill people, and I don't think I would.

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

I don't believe in murder.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

The essential effect of war on a citizen's conscience is nothing but a legalization and glorification of things that in times of peace constitute crime.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

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

People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.