Definition of Killing

Killing

of Kill

Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.

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Killing Quotations

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
John Lennon

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
Eminem

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

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.
Leo Tolstoy

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Abdul Kalam

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Herbert Hoover

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Golda Meir

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell

Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter

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.
Jimmy Carter

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Christopher Walken

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
Brett Favre

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
Denis Leary

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
Chief Joseph

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
Chief Joseph

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Killing Translations

killing in French is abat, tuant
killing in Spanish is matanza

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