Murder Quotes

• 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
  • Mind
  • May
  • Gentleman

• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  

  Rider Strong
  • Stress
  • Psychological
  • Investors

• Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Imagination
  • Commit
  • Entitled

• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mercy
  • Juliet
  • Tybalt

• It was not war, it was murder.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • War
  • Murder
  • Civil War

• Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Stuff
  • Build
  • Blame

• Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

  

  Terry Hayes
  • Planning
  • Murder
  • Arrested

• Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Murder

• You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

  

  Lily King
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Dead

• If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Human
  • Honest
  • Murder

• Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • History
  • Murder
  • Fascism

• No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Should
  • Revenge
  • Bounds

• If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Believe
  • Christ
  • Scary

• Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

  

  Burt Prelutsky
  • Murder
  • Incompetence
  • Penalty

• There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religion
  • Rich
  • Poor

• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Feelings
  • Endure
  • Rounds

• 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
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Enemy

• The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

  

  Alfred Adler
  • Truth
  • Murder
  • Aggression

• Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Murder

• Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • People
  • War
  • Natural

• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Why
  • War
  • True

• Those responsible for this murder must be brought to justice.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Justice
  • Responsible
  • Murder

• It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.

  

  Joseph Stefano
  • Movie
  • Murder
  • Shock

• If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • America
  • War
  • Crime

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