ethics of killing Quotes

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

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

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.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

A good angel is only a dead angel.

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

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'.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.