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Assassination's the fastest way. -- Moliere
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -- George Bernard Shaw
Assassination has never changed the history of the world -- Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination. -- George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. -- Brent Weeks
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. -- Bill Hicks
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser. -- Brad Pitt
'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser. -- Brad Pitt
Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice. -- Rachel Vincent
Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together. -- George Carlin
Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day. -- Garret Dillahunt
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either. -- James A. Garfield
[Robert]Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but certainly themes that are at play in this film [ Assassination of Jesse James]. -- Brad Pitt
I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it. -- Brad Pitt
I've been forced to deal with my character assassination. -- Sean Young
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. -- Voltaire
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. -- Michael Beschloss
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. -- Ben Affleck
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. -- Pope Francis
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert M. Hutchins
It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance. -- Richard Dreyfuss
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. -- Marian Wright Edelman
We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo. -- Emanuel Celler
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. -- Harry S Truman
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. -- Daniel Craig
Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed. -- Tom Shales
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. -- Russell Baker
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms. -- Thurston Clarke
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. -- Angela Davis
To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. -- Jim Garrison
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. -- Charles Krauthammer
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs. -- Ahmed Yassin
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. -- J. G. Ballard
My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. -- Belle Boyd
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination. -- Jeff Greenfield
Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt. -- Ron Fournier
A political leader worthy of assassination -- Irving Layton
Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care. -- Jefferson Davis
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination. -- Vincent Bugliosi
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. -- Voltaire
Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you. -- Perry Noble
To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book. -- Sebastian Horsley
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. -- Henry Louis Gates
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination. -- John Diefenbaker
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. -- Fidel Castro
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. -- Irving Layton
I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination. -- Eugene V. Debs
[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. -- Jeane Dixon
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting. -- Bill Hicks
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. -- Adolf Hitler
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. -- Benjamin Tucker
I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide. -- Pierre Salinger
I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm. -- Louis Farrakhan
Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. -- Pierre Salinger
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. -- Walt Whitman
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible. -- Penelope Gilliatt
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. -- Margaret Chase Smith
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy -- Jack Ruby
We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. -- David Ben-Gurion
If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot. -- Ann Coulter
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. -- Eric Ambler
The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored! -- Jarod Kintz
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. -- Marvin J. Ashton
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event. -- Don DeLillo
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. -- John Bolton
Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act. -- Noam Chomsky
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly. -- John Stuart Mackenzie
I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times. -- Jasper Fforde
Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda. -- Chris Matthews
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for. -- Ronald Reagan
April frowned, irritation evident. "I did not consent to your presence," she said peevishly. "Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else's property. -- Mira Grant
I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave. -- Barack Obama
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre. -- Mark Twain
Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off. -- David C. Holley
I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason -- Dele Momodu
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue. -- Karl Liebknecht
There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba. -- William Attwood
Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me. -- Chris Murphy
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. -- Harry S Truman
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for. -- Jack Newfield
One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty? -- Megan Whalen Turner
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind. -- Louis Stokes
President Kennedyâ??s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. Itâ??s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important. -- Kathryn Stockett
In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination. -- Louis Stokes
President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president. -- Malcolm Kilduff
In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men -- Jim Garrison
My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it. -- Robert Baer
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be. -- Barbara Tuchman
When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter. -- Malaak Shabazz
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. -- Jim Garrison

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