“We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)”
Martin Luther
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb”
W. H. Auden
“But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? / Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.”
Bible
“And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.”
“[On Nov. 2, the nation marked the one-year anniversary of van Gogh's slaying.] We must not allow ourselves to be set against each other by people who inscribe their message in blood, ... The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Jan Peter Balkenende
“If the red slayer thinks he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain, / They know not well the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them, and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy), but it was Allah Who smote, and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; surely Allah is Hearing, Knowing.”
quran
