Elizabeth Perkins Quotes

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

This is a matter far too important to be left solely in the hands of the scientific and medical communities. The belief that surrogate mothers and clonal babies are inevitable because science always moves forward, an attitude expressed to me recently by a scientific colleague, represents a form of laissez-faire nonsense dismally reminiscent of the creed that American business, if left to itself, will solve everybody's problems. Just as the success of a corporate body in making money need not set the human condition ahead, neither does every scientific advance automatically make our lives more 'meaningful.' No doubt the person whose experimental skill will eventually bring forth a clonal baby will be given wide notoriety. But the child who grows up knowing that the world wants another Picasso may view his creator in a different light.

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

People ask me if I would shoot and kill people, and I don't think I would.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?