Murderous Quotes
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
Albert Einstein -
Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.
Claude Monet -
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Thomas Carlyle -
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
Albert Camus -
Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!
William Shakespeare -
What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.
Judith Butler -
Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.
Edmund Morris
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The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado.
Evan S. Connell -
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
Will Durant -
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Emil Cioran -
The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
Errol Morris