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• But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mean, Creating, People

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

  Richard Russo

  Suicide, Kids, Thinking

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• But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

  Alexei Sayle

  Party, Nuance, Belief

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• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Revenge, Despair, Delight

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• I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

  Steven Seagal

  Years, Police, Different

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  Upton Sinclair

  Tyrants, Plus, Fascism

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “Presidential Agent”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Suicide, Sex, Thinking

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• Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Strong, Gun

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• If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.8

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• I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Mom, Want, Awful

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• On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Religious, September 11, Groups

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• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Men, Texas, Police

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• Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

  Tertullian

  Prevention, Birth

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.122, Aeterna Press

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• Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Struggle, Punishment

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• I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, People, Messages

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• Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Suicide, Civilization, Dies

  "A Time of Troubles" by S. Michael Craven, www.christianpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

  Ville Valo

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  Earl Warren

  Heart, Men, Age

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Men, Lynching, Bravery

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.

  Juan Williams

  Children, Mean, Gun

  "The Combustible Mix of Race & Guns". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

  Juan Williams

  Gun, Cities, Violence

  "The Combustible Mix of Race & Guns". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suicide, Men, Political

  Letter to Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1916.

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