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~ Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~ ~ Sports is like a war without the killing. ~ ~ So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs ~ ~ Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~ ~ Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~ ~ Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. ~ ~ The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration? ~ ~ We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~ ~ Sports is like a war without the killing. ~ ~ War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ ~ Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ~ ~ If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener. ~ ~ And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and
gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. ~ ~ If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside ~ ~ The killing of a criminal can be moral — but never its legitimation. ~ ~ The art of creation is older than the art of killing. ~ ~ So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies,private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ~ ~ A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral ~ ~ The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise ~ ~ It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands ~ ~ A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. ~ ~ War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each others children. ~ ~ Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. ~ ~ Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. ~ ~ Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. ~ ~ Society's prohibition of intentional killing ...is the cornerstone of law and social relationships. It protects each of us impartially, embodying the belief that all are equal. ~ ~ Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person ~ ~ Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. ~ ~ If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists. ~ ~ Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source. ~ |
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