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Letter "K" » killings
«There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(
Author,
Historian,
Political activist,
Professor)
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About:
Politics,
War
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Keywords:
cover,
covered up,
cover for,
cover up,
flag,
flagging,
Flag of,
innocent,
innocents,
innocent of,
killing,
killings,
large,
On the Cover,
shame,
shamed,
shames,
shaming
«[He] ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.»
«What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
abuse,
abusing,
cling,
cling to,
clung,
desire,
doctrine,
envy,
envying,
evil,
false,
gossip,
gossiping,
hatred,
illusion,
killing,
killings,
lying,
root,
slandered,
slandering,
Slanders,
these
«When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(
Vice President)
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Keywords:
caused,
killers,
killing,
killings,
rioter,
rioters,
rioting,
riots,
The Killer,
The Killers,
The Killing,
weeks
«So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.»
«Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(
Actor,
Comedian,
Singer)
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Keywords:
ago,
anymore,
communication,
conversation,
I Tried,
killing,
killings,
listening,
realized,
ruining,
ruins,
top,
topper,
toppers,
tried,
trying
«To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in»
Author: Henry Miller
(
Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
awake,
electrified,
electrify,
electrifying,
killing,
killings,
soak,
soaking,
soaks,
soak up,
staying
«All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
against,
animosities,
animosity,
as needed,
circumstances,
feel,
Feel the Need,
found,
founds,
help,
help out,
in trouble,
just,
Just War,
killing,
killings,
must,
musts,
needed,
no.,
no,
On War,
other,
personal,
Strangers,
Them,
The Killing,
The War of the,
trouble,
under the circumstances,
war,
warring,
WHO,
would
«They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.»
«I kissed thee ere I killed thee -- no way but this,Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.»