Murder Quotes - Page 38

• As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Art, Father, Philosophy

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.24

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• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports

  "O. J. Simpson: 10 years later". Interview with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

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• ... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Brother, Humility, Careers

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• And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

  Patty Hearst

  Looks, Throwing, Term

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• It is like confessing to a murder.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Confessing

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• The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them around, and still be a perfect gentleman, a good husband, a righteous man, and one of God's most intimate friends; and that is a pretty good position for a beginning.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Daughter, Husband, Father

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• God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Law, People

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• I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Yoga, Buddhism

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• I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Suicide, Religious

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• Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Blood, Names

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• What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows that ... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. ... This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Stupid, Party

  "Anderson Cooper Trashes Think Progress By Comparing Their Site To Michelle Malkin's". crooksandliars.com. January 15, 2011.

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• I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

  Andy Biersack

  Want, Killing, Get Away

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• Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Reality, Talking, Just Live

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Light, Doe

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 12 (1941)

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• Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

  Scott Simon

  Comedy, Easy, Hard

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• It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.

  David Cronenberg

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Glorious, Built

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• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Powerful, Powerful Women

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• The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

  Ben Wheatley

  Drama, Reality, Detectives

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• Today we charge George Zimmerman with murder in the second-degree.

  Angela Corey

  Today

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• You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

  Huey Newton

  Running, Country, Fighting

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• To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Art, Peace, Solitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 588-91, Agricola, XXX, 1922.

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• What a fine-looking thing is war!
  Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Song, War, Gold

  Douglas William Jerrold (1846). “The Chronicles of Clovernook: With Some Account of the Hermit of Bellyfulle”, p.142

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• Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Growing Up, Character

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• Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Revenge, Numbers, Doe

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.233, Faber & Faber

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