(35 quotes found)
“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
“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
“So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their wa”
“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
“No spell were wanting, from the dead to raise me, But only that sweet laugh herewith she slays me”
Clement Marot
“I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.”
“The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.”
