{"quotes":[{"text":"You—“ Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, “You would kill for money?”“Is there any other reason to? Well, I suppose there is revenge, but that, you know, never makes one feel as well as it should when it is all said and done. Money is a much better reward than retribution. Something substantial by way of compensation for emotional wrongs is much the best cure for an injured spirit. I do provide fatal retaliation for nothing when it is deserved, but as you are neither a poor helpless wretch nor the victim of national injustice, full payment is expected.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["assassination","humour","mercenaries","murder","pirates"],"id":23666,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.","author":"Caitlín R. Kiernan","tags":["assassination","morality","pragmitism"],"id":35428,"author_id":"Caitl%C3%ADn+R.+Kiernan"},{"text":"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.","author":"David C. Holley","tags":["absurd","advice","assassination","awkward","humor","obama","piss-off"],"id":37302,"author_id":"David+C.+Holley"},{"text":"The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.","author":"Thomas Pynchon","tags":["assassination","deception","power"],"id":56197,"author_id":"Thomas+Pynchon"},{"text":"Here's an interesting form of murder we came up with: assassination. You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry, but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Did you ever notice who it is? Stop to think who it is we kill? It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon, they all said, 'Try to live together peacefully.' BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we're not ready for that.","author":"George Carlin","tags":["assassination","humanity"],"id":118120,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious tools - like swords and bows — that humans created to make up for their lack of personal armament. What she still had to puzzle through was the subtle strategies involved in killing those who were expected to inherit power rather than those who held the power itself.","author":"Jane Lindskold","tags":["assassination","human-society","politics","power","wolf"],"id":125289,"author_id":"Jane+Lindskold"},{"text":"A 22-caliber bullet can travel as fast as 1,022 mph. I learned that at Quantico. However, the bullet that hit him probably traveled at 818 mph. Sound travels at 761 mph. I hear the bullet after I see the shot enter his head. But in my mind it all goes so fast that it’s just a single message.","author":"Francis Barel","tags":["assassination","kennedy","killer","murder"],"id":172666,"author_id":"Francis+Barel"},{"text":"Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["assassinated","assassination","brave","courage","cowardice","cowards"],"id":178150,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"In 1914, Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian imperial heir, was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. Do you know the motive behind the act?It was in retaliation for the subjugation of the Sebs in Austria.It was not.Franz Ferdinand had stated his intention to introduce reforms favorable to the Serbs in his empire. Had he survived to ascend the throne, he would have made a revolution unnecessary. In plain terms, he was killed because he was going to give the rebels what they were shouting for. They needed a despot in the palace in order to seize it.What's good for reform is bad for the reformers.","author":"Loren D. Estleman","tags":["assassination","history","reform","sarajevo","world-war-i"],"id":204342,"author_id":"Loren+D.+Estleman"},{"text":"And you will spend the rest of your life wondering if I have disciples to avenge me. Hire your tasters, Burbesh. Until the Master of the Sleeps comes for you, you’ll never know a taste of anything that has not touched another’s lips first. You’ll never sleep in a bed that has not been first tossed for vipers. You’ll never sit in a chair that has not been tested for poisoned barbs in its cushions. You shall never see a bath drawn for you that you will not at first fear is acid. And you’ll never have another dream where my face is not grinning at you from the shadows.” -- From 'Morality for Alchemists and Thieves.","author":"L. Joseph Shosty","tags":["assassination","dark-fantasy","fantasy"],"id":229953,"author_id":"L.+Joseph+Shosty"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}