Quotes about Life or Death Decision

Harriet Tubman

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Nicole Richie

I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

Oscar Wilde

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Elizabeth Perkins

I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.

Diana Wynne Jones

Don’t interrupt,’ one of the boys said. ‘He’ll lose his life.’ Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.

Jim Starlin

Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

Lynsey Addario

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

Djemal Ahmed

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death.

The Ottoman Turks made the great mistake of allying themselves with Germany in WWI. At the end of the war, most of the Ottoman Empire in was stripped from Turkey by the terms of the peace treaty, corruption was rampant, and Turkey was culturally, scientifically, and economically quite backward and the nation was further hampered by Islamic Fundamentalism. The nation as they envisioned it at the time did not survive. Soon Demal and the other Young Turks were unseated in the almost bloodless revolution of Ataturk who then made the nation secular, modernized it and triggered the development that makes it the most modern and powerful Islamic country in the world, and a major economic and military power in the world.

Vanessa Kerry

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

Life or Death Decision Quotes