865 – “A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.”

–General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr, USA

Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of France, which opened up the Western Front of the European Theater in World War II, leading to the downfall of Hitler and the NAZIs.

859 – “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”

–Albert Dietrich [See Source Notes for further information]

695 – “If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.”

–Malcolm Reynolds (Played by Nathan Fillion) to Dr Simon Tan in Firefly

593 – “I have nothing against gun owners, sport shooters, or hunters, but semi-automatic weapons have only two purposes. One is so that owners can take them to the shooting range once in awhile, yell ‘yeehaw’ and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use – their only other use – is to kill people.”

–Malala Yousafzai

397 – “You wouldn’t think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we’ll do it one day. That’s how negligent we are.”

–Ian Rankin under the pseudonym Jack Harvey