Murder Quotes - Page 33

• The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.

  Norman Sherry

  Biographies, Facts, Persons

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• The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism under Europe's Inquisition and the unthinkably sadistic legal murder of nearly nine million women. History doesn't say much very good about God.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Religious, War, Europe

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• Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being conceived. For they did not wish to have a child by either slave or by any common fellow - out of concern for their family and their excessive wealth. See what a great impiety the lawless one has advanced! He teaches adultery and murder at the same time!

  Hippolytus of Rome

  Children, Abortion, Drug

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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

  Children, Practice, Abortion

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Self

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, States, Assault

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• Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being hit by a drunk driver?"
  They (in favour of gun control) must believe in the existence of a substantial number of persons who are willing and able to break serious laws such asthose prohibiting murder, assault, and robbery, yet who are not willing or able to break gun control laws. Dr.

  Gary Kleck

  Believe, Mean, Gun

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• Remember the death penalty is murder.

  Robert Drew

  Death Penalty, Remember, Penalties

  Robert Drew's last words before the execution by injection in Texas, August 2, 1994.

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• How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Soccer, Capes, May

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• Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Matter, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Murders came with smiles, shooting people was no big deal for us Goodfellas.

  Henry Hill

  People, Shooting, Mobster

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• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

  Ernest Gaines

  Country, Believe, Aunt

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.255, Vintage

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• We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Mother, Children

  "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.

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• There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true of another case of a suspect murdered, his body disposed of without autopsy, when he could easily have been apprehended and brought to trial: Osama bin Laden.

  Noam Chomsky

  Boston, Trials, Body

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.106, City Lights Books

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• The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Terrorism, Liberation, Commit

  "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.

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• And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Peace, Tired

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.916, e-artnow

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• We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

  Justin Martyr

  Kindness, War, Numbers

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• Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

  Hermann Goring

  History, Police, Nazism

  Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler “Germany REBORN”, freedom

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• The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

  Julius Streicher

  Sacrifice, Blood, History

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 57), 1997.

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• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Writing, Pieces, Crafts

  On the Art of Writing "On Style" (1916)

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• 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

  Peace, War, Mean

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• [D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Hands

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy”

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• Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Character, Fighting

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.41, Random House

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• The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Choices, Abortion

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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