“HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.”
Ambrose Bierce
“For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butterfly we bear within ourselves. And then time passes and the nymph stage never comes, we remain larvae -- what do we do with such an appalling realization?”
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Mark Twain
“[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
“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
“We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)”
Martin Luther
“And slay them (the infidels) wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter”
quran
