Murder Quotes
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
Tertullian
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White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Murder is terribly exhausting.
Albert Camus
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Oscar Wilde
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Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.
S. S. Van Dine
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[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.
Lester Cole
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I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.
Weegee
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As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Bentley Little
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If they ever let me in the ring with him (Cassius Clay), I'm liable to be put away for murder.
Sonny Liston
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Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
William Shakespeare
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Hanging had been introduced by the Anglo-Saxons during the fifth century as a punishment for murder, theft and treason.
Catharine Arnold
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If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'
Scott Vincent James Baio
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We hope that uncovering the truth behind Hariri's murder will show people that you can't get away with murder in Lebanon. The international community hopes to see an end to the series of brutal attacks including Chidiac's.
Rafik Hariri
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Jasper Fforde
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My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
Margery Allingham
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Tertullian
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What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture? It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them. We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly’s great character Pogo, who famously said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.
Carol Tavris
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Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
Terry Hayes
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The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
George Bernard Shaw