Overkill Quotes

“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.”
― Shaun Hick

“Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

“Maxim 37:
There is no "overkill."
There is only "open fire" and "reload."

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

“What do you think? Overkill?"

"I don't believe there is any such thing.
But in this case, 'yes, overkill.”
― Howard Tayler, The Teraport Wars

“The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

“Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Is it not true that each superpower has enough nuclear weapons to kill all members of mankind several times over? Yes. And the same is true of kitchen knives.”
― Petr Beckmann

“After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.”
― Jan Kaplicky

“Don’t ever use a shovel to swat a fly.”
― Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster

“Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.”
― Bill Griffith, Zippy: Walk a Mile in My Muu-Muu

“The woolly mammoths occupied northern Eurasia and northern North America; the Columbian mammoth's range was transcontinental, from Alaska south throughout most of the United States, and went from an elevation of 9,000 feet in the mountains of Utah to sea level in Florida and Mexico. It seems unlikely that such adaptable animals could have been totally wiped out by even the most severe weather conditions.”
― Paul S. Martin, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America