I was born and lived for goodness and love. I was killed by the hatred of the elders just at the moment of their smallness.
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
—Franz Kafka
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
—Franz Kafka
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
—Voltaire
But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
—John Milton
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau
One of humanity’s most dangerous superstitions is the belief that a large group of people, sometimes millions, can call themselves people of a single nation or a single state. People kill and rob each other because of this superstition.
—Leo Tolstoy
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
—Cicero
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
—Seneca
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
—Immanuel Kant
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ’War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’
—Immanuel Kant
“Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man’s best self.”
Are you contented to embrace all corrections from the hand of God for the killing of the remainders of sin in you? If you will be for Christ, you must submit to Christ’s: It is in vain to say, If I can travel to heaven without meeting a storm in the way, I am willing to go
—John Flavel
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
—Thomas Edison
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
—Blaise Pascal
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
—Voltaire
You can kill a person who speaks the truth, but once spoken the truth remains.
—Leo Tolstoy
All fear is killed by faith.
This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief.
—John Locke