Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and “historical tasks” is an actual or potential assassin.
Assassination Quotes
There are different ways of assassinating man – by pistol, sword, or moral assassination. They are the same in their results, except that the last is more cruel.
Is it too much to hope that the martyrdom of our beloved President might even soften the hearts of those who would themselves recoil from assassination, but who do not shrink from spreading the venom which kindles thoughts of it in others?
I did not feel that one man should have all this power while others have none. (anarchist and assassin of President William McKinley, 1901)
If I could find a way to get him out of there, even putting out a contract on him, if the CIA still did that sort of thing, assuming it ever did, I would be for it. (Referring to Saddam Hussein in the CBS 60 Minutes television program, April 14, 1991)
The conspiracy theory of assassination – it’s historical, particularly with Europeans. Most of their assassinations grew out of palace guard defections and things of that kind. It’s the same in South America. Here, on the contrary, practically all of our assassins have just been demented people.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Though Cato lived, though Tully spoke, though Brutus dealt the godlike stroke, yet perished fated Rome.
By the miraculous care of Providence that protected me beyond all human expectation, I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, and yet escaped unhurt.
Seated next to Chou En-Lai at a banquet, Kissinger asked him what he thought might have happened if Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of Kennedy. Chou thought a moment and said: “Mr Onassis would not have married Mrs. Khrushchev”.
