'You must kill if you expect to survive.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Survival sometimes requires taking aggressive or lethal action.
- In plain terms
- Sometimes you have to fight to live.
- What can you take from it?
- Be prepared to act decisively to survive.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is survival worth any cost?
Another view
Violence is rarely the only solution.
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