After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.

You have heard the saying from before your time that if a man saved another from death that other would be his enemy ever after.

At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives.

Kill the king but spare the man.

Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

The same man who could not find it in his conscience to curb his curiosity into the nuclear studies that might someday kill half of Earth would risk his life to save that of an unimportant fellow man.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.

He was not condemned to death, freedom awaited him. What was the temptation, the one that worked? Perhaps he wanted to live with a woman whose life he had saved, who had seen down into the earth but had nevertheless followed him back up to life. It was his only chance to be a hero, to one person at least, for if he became the hangman the others would despise him. He was in prison for wounding another man, on one finger of the right hand, with a sword. This too is history.

lord, if my enemy kills me, I am damned; so save me from death

Two years ago—even if my own life was at stake—and I am confident, if I thought a man would shoot me—I would give him a chance of keeping his life, and would part with my own; but if I knew that through him innocent persons' lives were at stake, I certainly would have to shoot him.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?