Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?

Wayne's World

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War Murder

Speaker

Glen

Actor

Ed O'Neill

Source

Wayne's World

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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Carthage must be destroyed.

Cato the Elder

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War
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Cato the Elder

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Plutarch
Source
Plutarch's Lives
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Declaration
Language
Latin
Time
149 BC 140s BC 2nd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Cato the Elder. Speech within the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War. c. 149 BC, Rome, Italy.

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We're not gay! Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Being gay Homosexuality
Speaker
Jerry Seinfeld
Source
Seinfeld
Medium
TV program
Genre
Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy
Statement Type
Denial
Language
English
Time
1993 1990s 20th century
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"The Outing." Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Charles, season 4, episode 17, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

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But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Decline of religion Death of God Existence of God God

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Question
Language
Russian
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.