Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.
Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.
One kills a man, one is an assassin, one kills millions, one is a conqueror, one kills everybody, one is a god.
Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
Americans don’t do a good job, and shouldn’t do a good job, at separating the message from the messenger, when the messenger is killing people.
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
