What does 人は殺されれば死ぬ People Die If They Are Killed mean?

People die if they are killed is not vocabulary but a single English sentence. English Wikipedia's article on tautology, the figure of speech that says the same thing twice, lists it among its examples as "an infamous out-of-context quote from the 2006 Fate/stay night anime". That is as far as the sources this site trusts will go with the famous wording, and this page keeps to them.

The work it comes from

Fate/stay night is a visual novel by Type-Moon, written by Kinoko Nasu and first released for Windows PCs on January 30, 2004. It follows Shirou Emiya, a teenager who joins the Holy Grail War, a battle between mages called Masters and their Servants. Rin Tohsaka, a model student at his school, is secretly a mage and the Master of Archer. The game has three routes, Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel. The first anime adaptation, 24 episodes by Studio Deen, followed the Fate route and aired in Japan between January and June 2006.

What the quote collections record

Wikiquote's Fate/stay night page lists, under Rin Tohsaka, the line "Look, Emiya-kun. People normally die when they are killed." That is close to the famous sentence but not the same one: it adds normally and has when where the meme has if. The page does not say whether the line is from the game or the anime, or where in the story it falls.

Japanese Wikipedia's article on tautology lists 人は殺されれば死ぬ (hito wa korosarereba shinu), people die if they are killed, among its examples, attributed to no one. Nothing there ties that sentence to Fate/stay night.

What this page does not claim

No source this site could read names the episode the famous wording comes from, who says it, or the Japanese words behind it. An earlier version of this page supplied all three, along with a reading of the scene. None of it could be sourced, and the speaker it named is not the one Wikiquote gives, so it has been removed rather than repeated.

For another piece of fandom English with its own page here, see the keikaku note.