Thabo Mbeki Quotes

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

Since 1914, we have endured world wars, genocides and government-sponsored famines, not to mention civil strife, riots and murders. Altogether, we have killed a staggering 100 million to 200 million of our own kind. But over the century, about 10 billion lives were lived — which means that just 1 to 2 percent of the world’s population died violently. Those lucky enough to be born in the 20th century were on average 10 times less likely to come to a grisly end than those born in the Stone Age.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

I'm trying to think of - knock on wood - how young people would feel today if our president and our leaders were shot at. But... our young people are being killed at an astonishing rate, and times seem dark.

The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.