Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Die if you must, but never kill.

Never unsheathe the sword except in self defense.

The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.

Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

Cats don't need to be possessed; they're evil on their own.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

An armed man need not fight.

Niggaz need guns, too.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

Bears need people. People need bears.

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.