Murder Quotes
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I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.
David Wojnarowicz
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There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.
Barry Hannah
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
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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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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
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Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
Thomas Nagel
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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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I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.
Tom Araya Slayer
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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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Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
Burt Prelutsky
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If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It was not war, it was murder.
Daniel Harvey Hill
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Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
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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.
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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
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Those responsible for this murder must be brought to justice.
Javier Solana
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Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.
Erik Larson
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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
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If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
Martin Luther
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Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?
Caroline Norton