Quotes with assassin

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• Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

  ― Beilby Porteus
  English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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• Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

  ― W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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• Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

  ― Victor Kiam
  American businessman (1926 - 2001)
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• The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

  ― Alexander Cockburn
  Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
  English poet (1792 - 1822)
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• When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into
  the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and
  the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.

  Source: Cool Tombs (1918)

  ― Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin... in the dust, in the cool tombs.

  ― Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

  ― Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• procrastination
• opportunity
• copperheads
• efficiency
• historical
• potential

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