Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished who kill not in large companies, and to the sound of trumpets.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder!

A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

The overfaithful sword returns the user His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

Those birds who are killed in skies through stars, clouds, wind and the sun do not testify against the murderers ...