Murderer Quotes

• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
  • Contradiction

• I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Conscience
  • Human being
  • Stand By

• I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Know
  • Crime
  • Responsible

• Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Home
  • Alcohol

• It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Kiss
  • Forgive
  • Answered

• Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced were innocent. The real murderers of Malcolm X have not been caught or punished.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Life
  • Men
  • Real

• The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Earth
  • Waiting
  • Baseball

• ...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • Mirror
  • Places

• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Crush
  • Useless
  • Punishments

• For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hate

• If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Progress
  • Turn
  • Thief

• You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Murderer
  • Suit

• I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Play
  • Republican
  • Murderer

• I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like my life jacket. If I didn't have that way of processing those feelings, I'd probably be a murderer.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Song
  • Feelings
  • Needs

• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Victim
  • Believer
  • Religions

• Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer

  

  V. V. S. Laxman
  • God
  • Murderer

• No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

  

  John the Apostle
  • Life
  • Eternal
  • Murderer

• 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
  • Children
  • Profession
  • Murder

• He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • Neighbors
  • Tormentor
  • God's Mark

• You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Style
  • Fancy
  • Prose

• If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

  

  John Milton
  • Murderer
  • Traitor
  • Parricide

• The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Soul
  • Judge
  • Possibilities

• Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Men
  • Hell
  • Liars

• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffer
  • Human Heart
  • Underground

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